The governor of Colombia’s northern Cordoba department will appoint replacements of two newly inaugurated, but jailed mayors, said the government Tuesday. Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras said the Cordoba governor…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General on Tuesday fiercely criticized the recent inauguration of two mayors from the north of Colombia who are in jail on murder and parapolitics charges. During a speech…
Two mayors from towns in the north of Colombia have been sworn into office despite being in jail on murder and parapolitics charges. Both mayors are from the troubled Cordoba…
Colombian police captured 40 members of the neo-paramilitary gang “Los Urabeños” Tuesday in three simultaneous operations. The gang members were arrested in the departments of Antioquia, Cordoba and Norte de…
A U.S. businessman was shot and killed Tuesday by unknown gunmen in Colombia’s northern department of Magdalena, newspaper El Heraldo reported. The shooting occurred in the main industrial sector of…
A Colombian anti-terrorism prosecutor jailed 11 politicians from the department of Cordoba on Thursday for their alleged connections with the paramilitary Elmer Cardenas Bloc of the AUC. The defendants were…
Several candidates in northwest Colombia have threatened that their supporters will riot if they lose in Sunday’s election, Colombia’s interior and defense ministers confirmed. According to the ministers, they have…
Political opponents of a mayoral candidate in northern Colombia reportedly offered demobilized paramilitaries over $15,000 to testify that he had links to paramilitary groups, El Espectador reported Monday. Daniel Cabrales,…
Five people were killed and another six injured Sunday when gunmen opened fire at a group in a beach bar in the violence-ridden Cordoba department. A heavily armed group arrived…