Colombia has begun seizing properties of businessmen, ranchers and companies that collaborated with far-right paramilitary groups that have killed thousands and displaced millions of Colombians.
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups left more than 320,000 victims since their parent organization, the AUC, formally demobilized its last block in 2006, according to the government’s Victims Unit.
Colombia security is severely under threat at the hands of illegal paramilitary groups, according to a report published last week by conflict monitoring NGO Indepaz.
Venezuela’s Vice-President has accused Colombia of working with the United States in an alleged international effort to ignite a war against the country.
Over 13,000 Colombia businessmen, ranchers and other civilians who allegedly financed or helped paramilitary groups now face an elite prosecution task force, led by the Prosecutor General himself.
More than 500 political activists were killed in Colombia between 2011 and last year, according to a report presented to the British parliament by a British human rights NGO on…
The brother of Colombia’s former president, Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010), was arrested in Medellin on Monday while investigated for allegedly forming a paramilitary death squad.
Colombia’s public prosecution asked the country’s Supreme Court to investigate former President Alvaro Uribe for the violent death of his former chief of staff in 2006.
In a ceremony similar to one held by FARC rebels in western Colombia, government officials formally admitted responsibility and asked forgiveness to the town of Segovia where paramilitaries massacred 44 in…