System lacks tools to process ‘paras’: PG
Colombian justice system lacks the tools necessary to effectively process members of criminal gangs, Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza Diago said Thursday. “The first thing we need to do is be…
Colombian justice system lacks the tools necessary to effectively process members of criminal gangs, Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza Diago said Thursday. “The first thing we need to do is be…
Colombia’s Supreme Court was for the second time forced to postpone election of a new prosecutor general, reported El Espectador on Thursday. After three hours of deliberation by the court…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe proposed a new candidate for the position of the country’s Prosecutor General, four months after the last elected Prosecutor General left office. The Supreme Court has…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced he will recompose the shortlist for a new Prosecutor General after the second of three candidates stepped down. The Supreme Court, which is responsible for…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office Tuesday released more details on how the DAS security agency will be assimilated into that office and the DAS’ successor, the Central Intelligence Agency. As part…
Colombia’s Supreme Court is demolishing the country’s constitution by refusing to elect a new Prosecutor General from the presidency’s shortlist, the country’s deputy Interior and Justice Minister said Tuesday. “If…
An alliance was proposed between several Colombian departments in order to identify some 1,000 nameless bodies that over the years have been swept down the river Cauca and lie in…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the country’s Supreme Court continue to disagree on the President’s shortlist from which the court is to choose a new Prosecutor General. On Thursday, the…
Paramilitary group Bloque Norte committed 497 massacres between 2000 and 2006, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday based on a prosecution report. A report by the Justice and Peace Unit outlines how…