Despite hopes for peace, following the the mass-demobilization of Colombia’s most notorious paramilitary group the AUC, violence in Colombia’s northern department of Cordoba remains widespread, as neo paramilitary forces fill…
Colombia’s Partido de la U and the Conservative Party Tuesday denied accusations by Colombian NGO Arco Iris that several of their recently elected Congressmen are affiliated with parapolitics, El Tiempo…
A study released by the Prosecutor General’s Justice and Peace office says that the paramilitary umbrella organization AUC recruited more than 2,800 minors to fight over a fifteen year period.…
Former paramilitary leader, Carlos Mario Jiminez, alias Macaco, paid five billion pesos to ensure the election of Mario Iguaran to the Prosecutor General’s Office, according to an extradited paramiltary. Eidelber…
In an interview published in Colombian newspaper El Tiempo on Monday, political scientist and director of Colombian non-governmental organization Corporacion Arco Iris, Leon Valencia, talked about the the recent congressional…
Disgraced senator Ruben Dario Quintero will be released on bail on Friday because the legal deadline for bringing him to trial has expired, reports Caracol Radio. Quintero’s lawyer, Andres Garzon,…
The Bogota mayor’s office claimed Thursday that 8,000 illegally armed people were demobilized during Mayor Samuel Moreno’s first two years in office. The mayor’s office says that In 2009, 2,640…
Colombian authorities on Wednesday arrested another top commander of the drug-running neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños”. The alleged paramilitary leader, Ovidio de Jesus Cardona Borja, was apprehended by Colombian national police…
Colombian police on Tuesday captured Ismael “El Santandereano” Peñaranda Chona, a paramilitary member suspected of 100 murders, in Bucumaranga, Santander department. El Santandereano was arrested by police for illegal possession…