The land has been put aside for talks between government envoys and warlords from the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, an umbrella group for death squads responsible for some of the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Some believe Carlos Castano dodged assassins’ bullets and is hiding out in the tangled tropics. Others believe his body is in an unmarked grave. A few have ventured that he ...

Even after the United States designated the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia a terrorist organization in 2001, the group continued to receive money from the banana company: a total of $1.7 ...

The jury awarded plaintiffs $38.3 million in damages saying that Chiquita was liable for killings perpetrated by the AUC–Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia).

SEE ALSO: The ‘Ndrangheta Connection to Colombia’s Paramilitaries. Mancuso outlined the case of Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel.” Until his capture in October 2021, Otoniel was the main leader of ...

Mancuso, 59, was one of the leaders of the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, a paramilitary group founded by cattle ranchers who fought against leftist rebels during one of the most violent ...

Some 450 right-wing paramilitary fighters left Colombia's (search) crowded battlefields, turning in their weapons and asking society to let them back into its fold. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

In Colombia, Coca-Cola and more than 50 other companies have been accused of financing terrorism. Colombian courts accuse Coca-Cola of hiring assassins from the paramilitary group United Self ...

This is probably not too far off from how it happened.From the late 19th century through a big chunk of the 20th, El Pulpo exerted its power over the governments of Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala ...