Solano Gonzalez, alias “Buchequito”, admitted to his implication in the murder of union leader Ciro Arias Blanco before the International Human Rights prosecution, reported the National Prosecution website on Wednesday.…
A Venezuelan commission that was installed to investigate alleged plans to assassinate President Hugo Chavez Tuesday said Colombian government officials took part in an assassination plot. According to the commission,…
Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace and Reintegration yesterday called on former AUC paramilitaries to denounce threats made against them by the FARC guerrillas and join the reintegration process. “Drug trafficking,…
Authorities in central Colombia said Tuesday that they captured Eder ‘Ramon Mojana’ Pedraza Peña, leader of the paramilitary Mojana Bloc. In a joint operation, Colombia’s anti-narcotics police and Prosecutor General’s…
The U.S. Justice Department has promised to help Colombia’s Supreme Court in convincing extradited paramilitary leaders to testify and confess their crimes, Supreme Court president Augusto Ibañez said Tuesday. A…
Former head of paramilitary organization AUC, Carlos Castaño, ordered the murder of Jaime Garzon at the specific request of senior military commanders, claimed ex-paramilitary chief ‘El Aleman’ on Monday. Freddy…
Colombia’s Peace Commissioner, Frank Pearl, downplayed the importance of the refusal of extradited paramilitary leader ‘Don Berna’ to cooperate with Colombian justice to clarify crimes committed under his command. On…
Extradited paramilitary warlord ‘Don Berna’ has suspended all statements before Colombian authorities for “security reasons.” News station W Radio reported on Monday that Diego Fernando Murillo Bejerano, ex-boss of paramilitary…
Retired General Francisco Pedraza was released from prison Friday two days after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a 2001 paramilitary massacre that killed at least 26 civilians.…