Vicente Castaño
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…
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 arrested the first former commander of paramilitary group AUC, many of whom have been released from prison after serving a reduced sentence. Arnubio Triana, also known as “Botalon,” was arrested in…
Colombia’s banana companies financed legal “private security companies” and not paramilitary groups, claimed the association chairman as several members face charges of supporting terrorism. According to Juan Camilo Restrepo, Colombia’s former agriculture…
Colombia’s government denies the existence of paramilitary groups in the country, ignoring the fact that these groups have existed (and whose existence has been denied) for decades. Almost all the country’s…
The former leader of a paramilitary death squad will face the family of one his victims in a Washington court on Friday, reported The Guardian newspaper. In an unprecedented case, the Colombian family…
A US judge ruled Colombian war victims are allowed to sue banana giant Chiquita Brands under American jurisdiction, according to the victims’ defense. The court decision quashed the multinational fruit and vegetable…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office indicted 725 former members of paramilitary group AUC for over 22,000 crimes 10 years after the group officially disbanded. The charges were filed in accordance with the country’s Justice…
A number of extradited top leaders of now-demobilized paramilitary organization AUC sent a letter in which they call on Colombia to support a peace process with their former arch enemies,…