Former governor sentenced for paramilitary ties
A former governor of a southeastern department in Colombia was sentenced to 90 months in prison for ties with paramilitaries, reported Colombian press Tuesday. El Especatador reports that the Supreme…
A former governor of a southeastern department in Colombia was sentenced to 90 months in prison for ties with paramilitaries, reported Colombian press Tuesday. El Especatador reports that the Supreme…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC may benefit from the recent killing of neo-paramilitary drug lord “Cuchillo,” newspaper El Espectador reported on Monday. According to the newspaper, the death of Pedro…
Four policemen were killed in two separate FARC attacks in southern Colombia’s Meta and Caqueta departments, news agency EFE reported Wednesday. In the town of Vistahermosa in the Meta department FARC…
A parcel bomb exploded Wednesday in Vanguardia Airport, in the capital of the southern Colombian Meta department, RCN Radio reports. Meta police commander Marco Tulio Avendaño Lara confirmed that the explosive package…
The former governor of the south-east Colombian Guaviare department admitted having done business with “Cuchillo,” one of the country’s most important drug lords and leader of paramilitary group ERPAC. According…
Colombia’s outgoing armed forces commander General Freddy Padilla called on FARC leader “Alfonso Cano” to surrender and avoid death. Padilla spoke on Wednesday on a visit to the town of…
A general, two colonels and a sergeant from Colombia’s armed forces, who were rescued from FARC captivity in a military operation on Sunday, flew to Bogota on Monday to be…
The Colombian departments of Cordoba, Guaviare, and Cauca saw significant increases in coca cultivation in 2009, although national production dropped 16%, El Tiempo reported Tuesday. According to a forthcoming United…
A major FARC commander, alias “Saavedra,” who led the guerrilla group’s 81st Front, has been killed in a military operation on the bank of the river Itilla, south of the…