United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)

24, 2017, that Rendon could be extradited to the United States for allegedly smuggling cocaine into that country between September 2013 and December 2014. Rendon was a member of the Elmer Cardenas Bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) militia federation. The AUC, accused of ...

Unknown assassins have murdered another witness in one of the criminal cases against Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe, local media reported on Sunday. The victim ... The demobilized member of paramilitary group AUC was assassinated in Bello, a city bordering Medellin, over the weekend.

Following a demobilization deal with the government, the top bosses of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia – AUC) were jailed and unexpectedly extradited to the United States in the dead of night, purportedly for continuing to commit crimes. Their deal had also ...

Hundreds rearmed, thousands died and Colombia's national homicide rate shot up as a consequence. ... Unlike the extradition of the AUC chiefs, Monday's arrest of the rebel leader was entirely legal and Santrich's possible extradition will require the green light of both the war crimes tribunal and the ...

Colombia's Supreme Court ordered increased protection for one of the last living witnesses in a criminal case over the violence-ridden past of former ... the Bloque Metro paramilitary group at one of the Uribe family's ranches in Antioquia, the stomping ground of paramilitary umbrella organization AUC.

El defensor nacional del Pueblo, Carlos Negret, hizo un nuevo llamado al Gobierno Nacional y entidades regionales sobre el miedo en zonas del Cauca porque, de nuevo, hay presencia de grupos de autodefensa como los llamados Gaitanistas de Colombia y de disidencias de las Farc que se disputan ...

They referred to Cruz Rojas as "untiring fighter" when it came to improving the wellbeing of the local community. Mapiripan was previously an area of armed conflict in Colombia. Paramilitary group the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, (AUC) carried out a five-day mass killing in July 1997. Former General ...

They include former members, including ex-leaders, of the paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia; local paramilitary collaborators; and ... In the process, Chiquita helped keep AUC afloat and gave it the means to continue its campaign of violence and its murders of civilians who were ...

Sanchez, who has spent time in the Choco region of Colombia, described how she had observed how one of Colombia's most notorious paramilitary groups of the Uribe years, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC — now-demobilized), evolved from its “pre-incarnations,” through its eventual ...

More than 800 businesses sponsored paramilitary groups that committed tens of thousands of human right violations in Colombia, in most cases ... tens of thousands of civilians, which spurred the United States to declare paramilitary umbrella organization AUC a foreign terrorist organization in 2002.

The former chief commander of the AUC, warlord Salvatore Mancuso, will cooperate with his country's war crimes tribunal to crimes committed during the armed conflict. Mancuso was extradited to the US in 2008 and is serving a 15-year sentence on drug trafficking charges in a prison in Atlanta, Georgia.