Links to long-form information about peace, security, and human rights in Colombia
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 3 de diciembre de 2020.
Warnings of security deterioration in the Caribbean city due to the presence of criminal groups that can trace their heritage back to the old AUC paramilitaries.
Publicado por El Espectador el 23 de noviembre de 2020.
Revelations in the transitional justice system about links between paramilitary groups and coal mining companies in northeastern Colombia.
Published by Just Security on November 18, 2020.
The authors find that accountability over the ex-president’s human rights record is important for peace, and urge U.S. support for it.
Publicado por Vorágine el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
An account of a paramilitary massacre in an indigenous community in San Marcos, Sucre.
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 25 de octubre de 2020.
The former top paramilitary figure, facing extradition back to Colombia from the United States, changed his story about the 2001 murder of an indigenous leader.
Publicado por El Espectador el 27 de septiembre de 2020.
Profile of a former CIA agent who served as head of security for Drummond, a U.S. coal company accused of working with paramilitaries.
Publicado por Razón Pública el 21 de septiembre de 2020.
Profiles of some former AUC paramilitary leaders and the crimes they still need to clarify or confess.
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 2 de septiembre de 2020.
Recently declassified U.S. government documents from the 1990s attest to the Colombian military’s low morale and collaboration with paramilitary groups.
Publicado por Semana el 29 de agosto de 2020.
A rundown of the 1997 paramilitary massacre in Antioquia that, some allege, received support from the office of then-governor Álvaro Uribe.
Profile of brothers from an elite family in Cesar, an emblematic case of land concentration and support for paramilitarism.
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.
Publicado por Semana el 26 de julio de 2020.
The transitional justice system has moved forward on its investigation of one of the worst massacres in the history of the conflict, the 2000 paramilitary attack on the people of El Salado, Bolivar.
Lays out military responsibility for historically bloody paramilitary massacres in the Montes de María region during the early 2000s.
Publicado por 360-grados.co via Verdad Abierta el 9 de junio de 2020.
Sounds the alarm about the growing presence of the Gulf Clan and Pachencas neo-paramilitary groups in three Caribbean coast departments.
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.
Published by National Post on March 27, 2020.
Maximum AUC paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso is to be released from U.S. custody after 12 years. This report looks at Mancuso’s deeds, the “Justice and Peace” demobilization process, and the views of AUC victims exiled in Canada.
Publicado por El Colombiano el 29 de enero de 2020.
Reporters from the Medellín daily hold a rare interview with leaders of the breakaway paramilitary group sowing violence in Antioquia’s Bajo Cauca region and southern Córdoba department.
Publicado en La Silla Vacía el 26 de enero de 2020.
Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín of Colombia’s National University talks to La Silla Vacía about the history of paramilitarism in Colombia and the possibility that it might make a comeback.
Publicado por Semana el 6 de enero de 2020.
A paramilitary group tracing its lineage back to extradited leader Hernán Giraldo is responsible for the murder of two environmentalists in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region.
