Victims of paramilitaries sue Chiquita for $1bn
Nearly 250 Colombians who say they and relatives were victims of violence by Colombian right-wing paramilitaries filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking more than $1 billion in damages from the…
Nearly 250 Colombians who say they and relatives were victims of violence by Colombian right-wing paramilitaries filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking more than $1 billion in damages from the…
Two former congress representatives for the northern Colombian department of Choco, Edgar Ulises Torres and Odin Sanchez Montes de Oca, were on Wednesday called to trial by the Supreme Court…
The Colombian Inspector General’s office cites testimony as evidence of a “permanent link” between paramilitary group “Heroes de Tolova” and local authorities in the Uruba region of the Antioquia department in…
A special report by El Tiempo on Monday reveals that Colombia’s Justice and Peace Commission is currently investigating over 200 cases of minors recruited by paramilitary group the AUC, with…
Colombian authorities last week arrested ten people, including wealthy landowners and businessmen, for financing and collaborating with a notorious wing of paramilitary coalition the AUC, which terrorized the departments of…
Colombian authorities arrested Hector Jose Buitrago, alias “El Patron,” believed to be one of the founders of the Centauros bloc of demobilized paramilitary coalition the AUC, in the eastern department…
The Russian government on Tuesday agreed to appeal a decision by the European Court of Human Rights to overturn the extradition from Russia to Colombia of Israeli mercenary Yair Klein,…
Colombian government officials and human rights groups strongly criticized a decision by the European Court of Human Rights to overturn the extradition from Russia to Colombia of Israeli mercenary Yair…
Despite hopes for peace, following the the mass-demobilization of Colombia’s most notorious paramilitary group the AUC, violence in Colombia’s northern department of Cordoba remains widespread, as neo paramilitary forces fill…