Ex governor jailed for 40 years for parapolitics
The Supreme Court Thursday sentenced the former governor of Sucre, Salvador Arana, to 40 years in jail for his ties to paramilitary groups. Arana, who is also a former Colombian…
The Supreme Court Thursday sentenced the former governor of Sucre, Salvador Arana, to 40 years in jail for his ties to paramilitary groups. Arana, who is also a former Colombian…
Prosecution lawyers placed Thursday 18 charges upon ex-paramilitary boss ‘Ernesto Baez’, including homicide, kidnapping, conspiracy and recruitment of minors. Among the 18 criminal charges placed against the former paramilitary leader Ivan…
The relatives of demobilized paramilitary bosses are picking up where their predecessors left off by forming new criminal groups, according to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. Sons and nephews have inherited the…
Convictions of former paramilitary members under Colombia’s Peace and Justice Law for thousands of crimes including massacres, targeted killings and other acts of violence are immensely bogged down due to…
Accusations by former paramilitary chief and drug lord ‘The Twin’ that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was helped to power by paramilitary organization AUC are part of a criminal plan to…
Colombia’s demobilized paramilitary organization AUC was responsible for bringing President Alvaro Uribe to power, claimed drug trafficker Miguel Angel Mejia Munera, alias ‘The Twin’, on Tuesday. ‘The Twin’ was captured…
An Antioquian Court on Monday sentenced ex-paramilitary boss, Freddy Rendon Herrera, to 14 years in prison for the murder of a minor. The Second Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit…
Security forces are today focused on the current reassembling of paramilitary factions in the region who are making inroads with extortion and re-planting illegal drug crops, reported news station Caracol…
The former finance head of Colombia’s AUC paramilitaries admitted that an ex AUC boss sexually abused teenagers in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region. Carmen Rincon, alias ‘la Gorda’,…