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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - Colombia witnessed the largest disarmament ceremony in its violent history Friday with a weapons handover by more than 2,800 right-wing militia fighters led by a man wanted on drug ...

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 ...

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 ...

WORRIED that Latin America's third most-populous country was becoming a failed state overwhelmed by drugs and guerrillas, in 2000 Bill Clinton launched an ambitious programme of mainly military aid ...