System lacks tools to process ‘paras’: PG
Colombian justice system lacks the tools necessary to effectively process members of criminal gangs, Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza Diago said Thursday. “The first thing we need to do is be…
Colombian justice system lacks the tools necessary to effectively process members of criminal gangs, Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza Diago said Thursday. “The first thing we need to do is be…
The Inspector General’s Office (IG) on Thursday approved the extradition to the U.S. of former paramilitary leader and drug trafficker “Don Mario,” and commented that his participation in the Justice…
The director of Colombia’s Presidential Human Rights Program responded on Wednesday to Human Rights Watch’s damning new report on violent groups in Colombia, claiming that “Paramilitarism in Colombia is extinct…
Colombia’s Justice and Peace tribunal voiced concerns over the length of time taken for charged paramilitary leaders to be tried by the country’s prosecutor general, reported El Espectador. This follows…
Some 80 Colombian businesses from the Caribbean coast financed the northern block of demobilized paramilitary organization the AUC, according to testimony by former paramilitary leader “Don Antonio.” Edgar Ignacio Fierro…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe defended his government against damning criticisms from prominent Colombian journalists, academics and politcal analysts at an unprecedented live debate in Bogota on Wednesday. During the debate…
Former congressman Dixon Ferney Tapasco was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in jail after being found guilty of having links to a paramilitary group in the central Colombian department…
Colombia’s Defense Minister on Wednesday rejected the conclusions of Human Rights Watch’s damning new report on Colombia’s neo-paramilitary gangs, accusing the NGO of bias. In a statement, Gabriel Silva asserted…
A bomb exploded outside the political head quarters of former paramilitary and Congress candidate Fernando Soto in Medellin on Tuesday night. No one was hurt in the attack. The bomb,…