Colombian authorities are set to begin exhuming bodies from what could be the country’s biggest mass grave that has been looming over western Medellin for more than a decade.
Salvatore Mancuso, once the supreme leader of paramilitary organization AUC, was sentenced to almost 16 years in US prison on Tuesday for drug trafficking.
Colombia’s prosecution is planning to file criminal charges against the former press secretary and the former judicial adviser of Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe for meeting with a paramilitary representative, reported Caracol Radio on…
A top leader of one of Colombia’s deadliest paramilitary groups has been excluded from legal benefits he had bartered in a 2005 demobilization deal, the country’s chief prosecution office said.
A former mid-level commander of the paramilitary AUC has been assassinated in Medellin, reportedly three weeks after his release from prison where he spent eight years after admitting to 230…
Colombian ex-senator Miguel Alfonso de la Espriella was detained by prosecution officials on Thursday after the Supreme Court of Justice convicted the politician of using paramilitary support to garner votes.
A Colombian executive of US-based coal company Drummond has been arrested after being charged with the killing of two labor union leaders, The Associated Press reported on Monday.
Oil giant BP has been charged of being complicit in the kidnapping and torture of a trade union leader in Colombia, British media reported.
Former AUC paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso and his lawyers claim have said that his 22-year sentence contradicts a plea bargain negotiated by Mancuso in exchange for his cooperation with US…