Colombia makes biggest cocaine bust ever
Colombia’s security forces have confiscated 12 metric tons of cocaine in the country’s biggest drug bust ever, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday. The drug was found in four…
Colombia’s security forces have confiscated 12 metric tons of cocaine in the country’s biggest drug bust ever, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday. The drug was found in four…
Paramilitary successor group AGC has allegedly taken control of approximately a quarter of the approximately 1,000 street gangs in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin. The Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC)…
Ethnic minorities in the war-torn Pacific region of Colombia will provide additional monitoring for a ceasefire announced Sunday between the country’s last-standing rebel group and the state. The special agreement…
According to Colombia’s prosecution, the AGC paramilitary organization has approximately 7,000 members, making it more than four times as big as authorities have yet admitted. The Prosecutor General’s Office’s organized…
Gangs loyal to paramilitary group AGC have resumed hostilities against rival gangs associated with La Oficina de Envigado and local police in the west of Medellin this week. Ahead of…
Colombia’s western Choco province is unlikely to benefit from a ceasefire between the ELN guerrilla group and the military as the latter has barely intervened in ongoing violence with the…
The justice minister has drafted a bill that would regulate the demobilization of illegal armed groups like the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), a.k.a. “Clan del Golfo.” The AGC…
Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC, is not the only one to put conditions on its surrender to justice. The authorities have some demands too. The country’s largest remaining…
Colombia’s government said Tuesday that it will consider an offer by the country’s largest paramilitary and drug trafficking organization, the AGC, to surrender to justice. The request to surrender under…