Lawmakers of coalition party Cambio Radical threaten to leave the party if party president German Vargas Lleras does not give them money, Vargas Lleras confirmed Monday. Vargas Lleras, confirmed that…
The former governor of the northern Colombian Sucre department Friday was sentenced to seven and a half years imprisinment for his ties to paramilitary death squads. The country’s Supreme Court…
The Colombian government denounced a conspiracy “on a [national] and international level,” as being behind the accusations of a former director of information of DAS, who is testifying against right-wing…
Colombia’s Supreme Court Thursday slammed a proposal by coalition party De la U to disallow the court to prosecute congressmen. The court says the Uribistas are seeking impunity. The Partido…
Colombian coalition party De la U Wednesday proposed a law that would disallow the country’s Supreme Court to try Congressmen who resigned to avoid prosecution by the country’s highest court.…
Former senator Ruben Dario Quintero will become the second former congressman to be tried by Colombia’s Supreme Court, following accusations of receiving bribes from demobilized paramilitary warlord Freddy ‘El Aleman’…
Paramilitary warlord Freddy ‘El Aleman’ Rendon Herrera confirmed on Monday that he had given COP100 million (US$50,000) to Ruben Dario Quintero, just before the latter was elected Senator for Cambio…
North Colombia prosecution investigators found evidence of money transfers from paramilitaries in the Sucre department to local politicians and officials, television network RCN reported Thursday. According to RCN, bank accounts…
Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS was actively involved in the trafficking of drugs to the U.S. by paramilitary organization AUC. President Alvaro Uribe was aware of the cooperation, Noticias Uno reported…