Colombia’s oligarchy is to blame for Venezuela’s soaring violence, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday. According to the leftist president, the soaring crime rate is being influenced by Colombian…
Colombia must look for a political solution to the country’s violent conflict to improve the “grave and critical” situation of its indigenous people, says a UN report to be released…
Colombian police authorities expanded the country’s most wanted list to include eleven reputed drug lords, and the leaders of nine paramilitary groups and drug trafficking organizations. In an interview with…
Police revealed Friday that at least six different criminal organizations with a combined total of 3,700 members, some of them former paramilitaries, are currently operating in Colombia. Police General Jose…
A Colombia congresswoman who was arrested for suspected ties with paramilitaries was freed on Friday after a judge ruled that the legal time limit for the case had passed. According…
A former leader of Colombian paramilitary organization AUC has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison and ordered to pay more than US$117 million after conviction on drug trafficking…
A Colombian prosecutor on Thursday ordered the arrest of former Liberal congressman Alfonso Lopez Cossio for alleged ties to paramilitary groups. The case investigator substituted house arrest for a prison…
The Colombian Caribbean town of San Cristobal has not recorded a single violent death since 2004, making it one of the most peaceful municipalities in the country. San Cristobal, located…
Colombian prosecutors on Wednesday ordered the preventative detention of a paramilitary commander in the slaying of a journalist seven years ago in the violent eastern state of Arauca. Gunmen killed…