A Colombian Congressional committee on victim reparation is considering making politicians with proven ties to paramilitary death squads partly responsible for the compensations of victims of these groups, the committee…
Extradited former AUC commander Ever Veloza, alias “H.H.,” has claimed that the government of ex-President Alvaro Uribe pressured him to keep quiet about paramilitary ties to politicians, the military and…
Colombia’s Supreme Court wants the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate if prison authorities illegally allowed jailed politicians to be prematurely released from prison, newspaper El Tiempo reported Friday. Earlier this…
The current ombudsman of Bogota, Francisco Rojas Birry, has been accused of courting the support of paramilitaries in his 1998 senate election campaign, Caracol reported Thursday. Rojas Birry, who is…
Colombia’s Supreme Court has ordered investigations to be opened against some 60 soldiers, policemen, politicians and prosecutors after testimony by the extradited drug trafficker, Juan Carlos “El Tuso” Sierra implicated…
DAS officials arrested former Arauca Governor Julio Enrique Acosta Bernal on Monday on charges of conspiracy, aggravated homicide and links to paramilitary groups while in office, W Radio reports. The…
The Supreme Court called former congressman Cesar Perez Garcia to trial on charges of involvement in the November 1988 massacre of 43 people in Segovia, Antioquia, Caracol Radio reports. The…
Thirteen local politicians in Uraba, northern Colombia, are charged with having had ties to the Elmer Cardenas bloc of demobilized paramilitary organization the AUC, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The demobilized…
Former presidential advisor under Alvaro Uribe, Jose Obdulio Gaviria, has lashed out at the Chief of Colombia’s National Police (CNP) Oscar Naranjo after a WikiLeaks cable showed Naranjo alleged Gaviria…