According to Colombia’s prosecution, the AGC paramilitary organization has approximately 7,000 members, making it more than four times as big as authorities have yet admitted. The Prosecutor General’s Office’s organized…
Gangs loyal to paramilitary group AGC have resumed hostilities against rival gangs associated with La Oficina de Envigado and local police in the west of Medellin this week. Ahead of…
Colombia’s western Choco province is unlikely to benefit from a ceasefire between the ELN guerrilla group and the military as the latter has barely intervened in ongoing violence with the…
The justice minister has drafted a bill that would regulate the demobilization of illegal armed groups like the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), a.k.a. “Clan del Golfo.” The AGC…
Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC, is not the only one to put conditions on its surrender to justice. The authorities have some demands too. The country’s largest remaining…
Colombia’s government said Tuesday that it will consider an offer by the country’s largest paramilitary and drug trafficking organization, the AGC, to surrender to justice. The request to surrender under…
Colombia’s security forces have killed the alleged number two of the AGC paramilitary group, dealing the biggest blow to the group formed by dissident AUC paramilitaries since the beginning of…
Gangs associated with Medellin crime syndicate Oficina de Envigado and paramilitary group AGC have signed a truce after months of violence and tensions in the west of the city, according…
Colombian authorities said Wednesday they had closed 12 businesses accused of laundering a total of $72 million a year in drug trafficking revenue for paramilitary organization AGC. The alleged front…