Alleged dissident FARC guerrillas killed a soldier in the latest of a series of attacks on Colombia’s security forces since peace was closed with the country’s second largest rebel group in November…
Colombia’s police claimed a record seizure of cocaine on Sunday, saying they seized 6 metric tons of cocaine with an estimated value of $213 million. The National Police announced the…
Vicente Castaño, a.k.a. “El Profe,” is the presumably dead founder of now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC, who ordered the foundation of AUC dissident groups AGC and the “Aguilas Negras.” Castaño was born…
Colombian authorities on Monday reported the first civilian casualties of an ongoing war between ELN guerrillas and AGC paramilitaries in the west of the country. According to Human Rights watch, the community…
Colombian authorities arrested 15 prosecution officials for working for a drug trafficker tied to both FARC guerrillas and AGC paramilitaries. The two prosecutors, two assistant prosecutors and 11 investigators were…
Colombia’s armed conflict is “far from over,” primarily because of increased far-right paramilitary activity following peace with Marxist FARC guerrillas, according to Amnesty International. The international watchdog group is the…
Hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes in the Pacific region of Colombia after fighting broke out between Marxist ELN guerrillas and their paramilitary rivals, the AGC, a.k.a.…
Colombia’s largest paramilitary group, the AGC, on Thursday offered to buy the weapons of disarming FARC guerrillas after the United Nations found the government failed to provide containers to safely guard…
Colombia has a number of powerful drug trafficking organizations, who have tried to take control of drug trafficking previously controlled by the country’s largest guerrilla group in modern history, the…