Colombia’s Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the 37-year prison sentence of a prominent gambling businesswoman, ending her last chance at overturning her conviction in the 2001 murder of what paramilitaries considered…
A Colombian governor who claims to have personally shot drug-baron Pablo Escobar while a policeman, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for having ties with right-wing paramilitary forces.
Former Congressmen Fuad Rapag and Oscar Suarez have each been condemned to nine years in prison for their ties to paramilitary death squads.
Five former congressmen, all convicted for using death squads to intimidate voters, are suing the Colombian state, demanding compensation for their loss of reputation and income, newspaper El Tiempo reported…
A politician and 20 others were arrested on Saturday after an investigation into land theft and a double homicide in northeastern Colombia.
A Medellin court has ordered Colombia’s Prosecutor General to investigate which businesses and banks were involved in financing the creation of paramilitary group ACCU that later became the AUC which…
An extradited paramilitary warlord denied on Tuesday any links to a Colombian ex-senator who is being investigated for her alleged ties to paramilitary organization AUC.
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups are widely considered unpolitical. The truth is, however, that these crime organizations also serve political and economic interests.
Colombia’s Inspector General and Supreme Court agree that the country’s former housing minister has been a victim of a conspiracy that sought to link him with a paramilitary warlord, his…