Colombian authorities have announced that without a court order, they are not allowed to reverse ex-security chief Mauricio Santoyo’s pension payments, reported news publication La Semana Thursday. Director of the…
A captured paramilitary leader has refused to testify in the preliminary investigation against Colombia’s housing minister who has been accused of ties to the warlord, reported local media Wednesday. The…
Five former high-ranking officials were part of the “criminal structure” of Mauricio Santoyo, ex-head of security for former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, said Representative Ivan Cepeda Wednesday. Cepeda made the claims…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the criminal investigation of six congressman and six former congressmen over their alleged ties to a paramilitary group. All politicians allegedly involved in “parapolitics”…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked Colombia’s Supreme Court to explain the resignation of Magistrate Ivan Velasquez who is considered the motor behind investigations of politicians with ties to paramilitary…
The Colombian magistrate widely considered the motor behind investigations of ties between lawmakers and paramilitary groups handed in his resignation Wednesday. Magistrate Ivan Velasquez’ letter of resignation comes just three…
Ten new boxes of evidence arrived to Colombia’s Council of State supporting the dismissal of former general Mauricio Santoyo, reported Caracol Radio Monday. New evidence emerged in the case against…
Colombia’s disgraced former Congresswoman Yidis Medina has been sentenced to 32 years for kidnapping, according to a press release from the Prosecutor General’s Office on Friday. The court found Medina guilty…
A university professor on Tuesday publicly shamed Colombian ex-President Ernesto Samper, caling him a “criminal” at a congress. The former head of state had just finished a lecture on the…