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Paramilitary threat holds up Colombia peace talks
Havana peace talks between Colombia's government and the FARC are stalled as the government refuses to acknowledge the existence of far-right paramilitaries.
Tag: Urabá
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Colombia: will paras fill post-FARC power vacuum?
Rights groups see an urgent threat that criminal gangs and paramilitary groups will fill the power vacuum in remote areas of Colombia as the FARC is demobilized.
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Colombia: scion snared for paramilitarism
Colombian police agents arrested Santiago Uribe, brother of ex-president Álvaro Uribe, for alleged involvement in the bloody "12 Apostles" paramilitary group.
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DEA sees Hezbollah link to Colombian cartel
The DEA claims that Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah is laundering money for the "Oficina de Envigado," successor organization to Colombia's legendary Medellín Cartel.
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New post-conflict ‘Plan Colombia’ foreseen
President Juan Manuel Santos meets at the White House with Barack Obama to mark 15 years since the initiation of the Plan Colombia—and discuss a "post-conflict" aid package.
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Colombia: paramilitary threat to peace seen
As the war between the Colombian state and the FARC guerillas winds down, conflict is escalating with right-wing paramilitaries in the north, leaving hundreds displaced.
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Colombia: FARC-paramilitary collaboration?
Colombia's FARC guerillas may be working under the table with their supposed bitter enemies in the ultra-right paramilitary groups, according to e-mails released by authorities.
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Colombia: manhunt for paramilitary warlord
Authorities in Colombia are carrying out a manhunt Dario Antonio Usuga AKA "Otoniel"—the biggest since the campaign that brought down the legendary Pablo Escobar in 1993.
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Colombia: land rights activist assassinated
A Colombian activist for restitution of usurped lands in the conflicted Urabá region was killed by presumed hired assassins—despite being under special government "protection."
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Colombia: cops seize ton of para cocaine
Colombia's National Police announced the seizure of 1.2 tons of cocaine allegedly belonging to paramilitary group Los Urabeños.
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Colombia: Embera indigenous leaders assassinated
Colombia's indigenous movement charges that the government is failing to act after a wave of deadly violence and threats against Embera leaders by paramilitaries.
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Colombia: peace talks advance amid violence
Colombian peasants held a mass meeting to press for agrarian reform as talks with the FARC continue in Havana—but fighting and repression continue around the country.