UN reports on Colombian parapolitics
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers spoke on Wednesday to the UN Human Rights Council about the scandal of politicians’ links to paramilitary…
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers spoke on Wednesday to the UN Human Rights Council about the scandal of politicians’ links to paramilitary…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court upheld a Supreme ruling that former Senator Juan Manuel Lopez Cabrales be sentenced to six years in jail for his paramilitary ties. The Constitutional Court’s ruling followed…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said the Washington Post was penetrated by criminals, after the U.S. newspaper printed allegations by a former police major that the president’s brother Santiago Uribe led…
The Colombian ambassador to the U.S. criticized NGO the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) for its “unacceptable” suggestion of a connection between the embassy and a paramilitary group, El…
A Nobel prize-winning Argentine and a group of prominent international lawyers say that Colombia must investigate allegations that President Alvaro Uribe’s brother led a paramilitary group, and warned that the…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will meet with the country’s Supreme Court to discuss the Court’s recent refusal to extradite prominent drug lords. Court president Jaime Arrubla said wednesday that Uribe…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced former congressman for the northern Magdalena department Jorge Castro Pacheco to seven years and six months in jail, after finding him guilty of parapolitics. Castro Pacheco…
Colombia’s Supreme Court asked the House of Representatives’ Investigative Commission Friday to investigate allegations by extradited former paramilitary boss Salvatore Mancuso that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has links to the paramilitaries, reports…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced a former governor of the Cesar department in northern Colombia to seven and a half years in prison for his involvement with paramilitary groups, reports W Radio. Former…