Former drug lord kingpin “Don Mario” implicated 26 more political leaders and an ex-congressman in parapolitics on Monday. Daniel “Don Mario” Rendon Herrera, who is collaborating with the authorities under…
The trial of the former president of Colombia´s Congress and leader of the Conservative party, who stands accused of ties to paramilitaries, began Thursday in Cali. Carlos Garcia Orjuela, the…
Mario Uribe Escobar, ex-president of the Colombian Congress and cousin of President Alvaro Uribe, was arrested in Medellin on Wednesday on charges of collaborating with paramilitaries. The arrest took place…
Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana in an open letter criticizes the phenomenon of parapolitics in Colombia’s current administration and says that President Alvaro Uribe has a lot of explaining to…
A Colombian prosecutor called on the country’s vice president, Francisco Santos, to testify about allegations by a paramilitary boss that he collaborated with the now-demobilized paramilitary organization AUC.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe defended his government against damning criticisms from prominent Colombian journalists, academics and politcal analysts at an unprecedented live debate in Bogota on Wednesday. During the debate…
Former congressman Dixon Ferney Tapasco was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in jail after being found guilty of having links to a paramilitary group in the central Colombian department…
In his soon to be released book, extradited paramilitary leader “Jorge 40” backs up accusations by other paramilitary leaders that Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos had ties to paramilitaries, Noticias…
Colombia’s prison authority INPEC is investigating the director of Picota prison in Bogota, who allegedly allowed a jailed politician to double the size of his cell and paint the walls.…