A Bogota court ruled on Friday that a series of massacres, homicides and forced displacement operations carried out by paramilitaries in the north and northeast of Colombia in the late 1990s was “state…
Colombian authorities on Thursday released the detained brother of a notorious paramilitary leader serving a lengthy jail sentence in the US on the grounds that the investigation into his case has…
A heated debate on former President Alvaro Uribe’s alleged ties to paramilitaries and drug cartels even forced former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso to file criminal charges over slander.
Colombian authorities on Tuesday arrested the brother of a notorious paramilitary leader serving lengthy jail sentence in the United States, making this the third arrest of a family member in…
The ex-chief of defunct right-wing paramilitary group AUC said Monday he wants to participate in ongoing peace talks with leftist rebel group FARC, and claims that former president Alvaro Uribe extradited him to keep him silent.
Two former heads of Colombia’s notorious right-wing paramilitary group, the AUC, called on President Juan Manuel Santos to allow them a space at the negotiating table in the ongoing peace…
One of Colombia’s most notorious former paramilitary leaders has publicly apologized to victims of his crimes via video link from his prison in the Unites States, local media reported on Tuesday.
Prosecutors in the northeast of Colombia on Monday charged Salvatore Mancuso, the extradited former leader of the AUC paramilitary group, with 1,500 crimes including hundreds of alleged crimes against humanity.
A former executive of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency DAS on several occasions gave courses and masterclasses to members of the demobilized paramilitary umbrella organization AUC, the former paramilitary leader testified…