Director recommends DAS be shut down
DAS director Felipe Muñoz will present a report to Colombian Congress Tuesday, detailing the continued infiltration of DAS by criminal gangs, and will recommend that the scandal-plagued security agency be…
DAS director Felipe Muñoz will present a report to Colombian Congress Tuesday, detailing the continued infiltration of DAS by criminal gangs, and will recommend that the scandal-plagued security agency be…
Colombian security agency DAS kept files on Father Javier Giraldo and other members of the NGO Center for Investigation and Popular Education (CINEP), including records of personal finances and travel…
A DAS official alleges that Partido de la U’s presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos was aware of espionage activities conducted by the Colombian security agency against foreign diplomats, W Radio reported…
Interpol currently have outstanding warrants for the arrests of 686 Colombians around the world, with emerging gang members and FARC guerillas the main targets, according to El Espectador. The U.S.…
Colombian paramilitaries turned down a proposal by a group of Venezuelan military officers to stage a coup against President Hugo Chavez in 2002, according to extradited former AUC leader Salvatore…
The U.S. announced it will pay a $5 million reward for information on Colombian drug lord Maximiliano Orozco Bonilla alias “Valenciano,” one of the leaders of Medellin’s “Office of Envigado”…
Members of the European Parliament’s Green Party called for the signing of the EU-Colombia free trade agreement to be put off until allegations that Colombian security agency DAS wiretapped the…
If Colombia does not successfully prosecute those who ordered the illegal wiretapping carried out by security agency DAS, the International Criminal Court should intervene, Liberal Party presidential candidate Rafael Pardo…
Colombian security agency DAS on Monday asked opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba to hand over evidence that she claims shows President Alvaro Uribe ordered DAS to spy on her, reports Caracol…