The Colombian Supreme Court of justice says ex-senator William Montes was captured Monday night in Cartagena for his presumed signing of an agreement with far-right paramilitaries, various media reported Tuesday.…
Colombian former Congresswoman Yidis Medina, who has been serving jail time since 2010 for accepting a bribe, testified in court Monday after being charged with arranging a kidnapping-for-ransom plot. The…
Retired General Mauricio Santoyo, who served as former President Alvaro Uribe‘s security chief, responded to drug trafficking charges filed by U.S. authorities Monday. A Virginia court charged Santoyo with drug trafficking after…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe asked Mauricio Santoyo, his retired chief of security, to explain drug trafficking charges of drug trafficking made against him in the United States, local media…
A U.S. prosecutor has filed drug trafficking charges against a retired Colombian police general who was former President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief, newspaper El Tiempo reports. According to the charges…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced Tuesday it will order some 40 politicians from the northwest of the country to respond to accusations that they had ties to the local paramilitary…
More than 11,000 Colombian politicians, state officials, businessmen and citizens are facing accusations of being accomplices to paramilitary groups, said research group Verdad Abierta Thursday. “We asked the Prosecutor General’s…
An estimated 700 emails from the computer of former AUC commander and drug lord Vicente Castaño revealed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and many top Colombian politicians may have…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dropped a criminal case against Bogota’s mayor Gustavo Petro who was being investigated for allegedly bribing a paramilitary fighter who had implicated former President Alvaro Uribe…