Almost seven years after signing peace with guerrilla group FARC, Colombia’s government finally has a policy to dismantle the country’s illegal armed groups. The policy seeks to dismantle the guerrilla…
Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization AGC said Monday it had hired lawyers to negotiate their demobilization with the government of President Gustavo Petro. According to a press release, the lawyers will…
One of the AGC’s top commanders was found murdered on Wednesday, spurring rumors about Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization and their alleged commitment to demobilize. According to the National Police, the…
Colombia’s army was behind the “narco-terrorism” that made Medellin the “murder capital” of the world in the 1980’s, according to a declassified CIA report. The 1988 report that has been…
One of Colombia’s most notorious war lords has begun testifying before the war crimes tribunal about the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC. War crimes tribunal JEP heard Rodrigo Tovar in order…
Colombia’s prosecutor general’s office on Friday refused to lift arrest warrants of paramilitary leaders, effectively blocking the government’s peace process. Deputy Prosecutor General Martha Marcera wrote Peace Commissioner Danilo Rueda…
Colombia’s illegal armed groups are increasingly moving their violence from the countryside to the country’s cities, according to a leading think tank on the armed conflict. In its annual report…
A US court sentenced the founder of Colombia’s paramilitary organization AGC, to 35 years in prison on charges related to drug trafficking and terrorism. The sentence comes almost a year…
Colombia’s Truth Commission revealed the names of 423 people and 58 companies that allegedly financed the expansion of paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 1998 from Medellin. The alleged sponsors…