Colombia’s national government announced to increase security for leftist congressmen, political activists and unionists after drug cartel “Los Rastrojos” announced them a “military target.”
20 alleged members of drug trafficking organization “Los Rastrojos” were captured by police on Friday in the northeast of the country.
Police on Friday arrested a neo-paramilitary leader who is accused of having forcibly displaced 28,000 people in the north of Colombia.
Colombian authorities said Friday that security forces killed one of the most senior members of drug cartel “Los Rastrojos” in the southwest of the country.
A Spaniard has been kidnapped in the southwest of Colombia and has been held by his kidnappers for over a month, newspaper El Mundo from Spain reported Friday.
A former commander of neo-paramilitary group “Los Paisas” and four other alleged members of illegal armed groups escaped Friday after armed men ambushed the van the suspects were transported in.…
At least five people have been killed and another two have been injured in a massacre in the southwest of Colombia, police and local media said Sunday.
The Venezuelan government said Monday it had arrested nine Colombian paramilitaries who were planning to assassinate Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups are widely considered unpolitical. The truth is, however, that these crime organizations also serve political and economic interests.