NGO Reports tagged “Paramilitarism”

Links to long-form information produced by non-governmental organizations (other than WOLA)

The Friends of “El Viejo”: Declassified Records Detail Suspected Paramilitary, Narco Ties of Former Colombian President Uribe

Published by the National Security Archive on August 31, 2020.

A trove of declassified U.S. documents raises questions about ex-president Álvaro Uribe’s possible ties to paramilitaries and narcotraffickers.

Tags: Alvaro Uribe, Civil-Military Relations, Paramilitarism, U.S. Policy

El Silencio de las Gaitas

Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas y el Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo el 8 de julio de 2020.

Lays out military responsibility for historically bloody paramilitary massacres in the Montes de María region during the early 2000s.

Tags: Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights, Montes de Maria, Paramilitarism

The Invisible Drug Lord: Hunting ‘The Ghost’

Published by InsightCrime on March 29, 2020.

The multi-part story of alias “Memo Fantasma,” a paramilitary drug trafficker with a long history and a low profile, who appears to have gotten away with it.

Tags: Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Paramilitarism