A court ordered the investigation of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe for his alleged involvement in two massacres carried out by paramilitary forces in the 1990s. According to the Superior…
Colombia’s Supreme Court jailed another member of the country’s ruling elite on charges he used a designated terrorist group to gain political power. Former Senator David Char is a member…
The former leader of Colombia’s state-loyal paramilitary groups said Thursday he will take part in his country’s transitional justice system, increasing pressure on Congress. Former AUC chief Salvatore Mancuso is…
Colombia could see a purge of corrupt congressman as at least six sitting lawmakers may have received help from corrupt Supreme Court magistrates to evade justice. The congressmen are on a…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to formally open corruption investigations into two former justices accused of having taken bribes from politicians. The court did so…
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe has not forgotten how now-UN commissioner Ivan Velasquez revealed the far-reaching ties between his family and paramilitary death squads. When Velasquez worked for Colombia’s Supreme…
The arrest of Medellin’s security secretary on charges he protected crime lords implicates a lot of very prominent “good Colombians,” for example presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo. The arrested Gustavo Villegas…
Medellin’s security secretary was arrested on Tuesday on charges of having ties to drug trafficking groups in the latest of a series of arrests of allegedly corrupt top officials in…
The then-press secretary and judicial adviser of former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe were charged on Thursday for their alleged participation in the illegal wiretapping of the Supreme Court, journalists, politicians…