Six people arrested in Caldas for extorting rural peasants. According to prosecutors, two were former members of the AUC that participated in the Justice and Peace Program. Several demobilized members ...

Banana company Chiquita Brands International has been found liable for financing a far-right Colombian paramilitary group and ordered to pay $38.3 million in damages to the families of eight men ...

Last week, Chiquita Brands International — one of the world’s largest banana distributors — was found liable in a Florida court for financing a Colombian paramilitary group. The ruling marks a ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The Colombian government has announced a detailed plan to disarm some 3,000 members of the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. In a news conference Wednesday ...

June 10, 2024 marked a groundbreaking moment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida as a unanimous jury delivered a verdict holding banana giant, Chiquita Brands ...

The bodies of 11 men and women who were assassinated by paramilitaries in the 1990s were discovered in northern Colombia, local media reported on Tuesday. The remains were found on the grounds of the ...

A new report concludes that there is little chance Colombia’s new generation of criminal gangs will achieve the same degree of political control as their paramilitary predecessors — but this doesn’t ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bogota, Colombia – Colombia witnessed the largest disarmament ceremony in its violent history Friday with a weapons handover by more than 2,800 right-wing ...

In what prosecutors called a “landmark ruling in the fight for human rights,” a U.S. jury in Miami has found banana giant Chiquita Brands International liable for the deaths of Colombian civilians due ...

Salvatore Mancuso, the extradited leader of the now defunct paramilitary organization AUC, wrote a letter to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos requesting to be a part of the peace process between ...

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Members of the right-wing paramilitary group United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), photographed in 2004.Fredy Amariles / AFP / Getty Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe headed to Washington this ...