Uribe extradited the demobilized AUC leadership, including Berna, to the United States in May 2008 ... “in principle the result of a failed peace process with the Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.” ...

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe took a step to quell the violence associated with at least one of those actors when he signed a peace deal with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia ...

Montes, a conservative ex-senator of the northern Bolivar department, was convicted of crimes against humanity Tuesday morning for helping “the political and economic project” of paramilitary group ...

To avoid being pursued, he joined. The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, which grew into a massive coalition of right-wing paramilitaries, would eventually negotiate a peace deal with the ...

Just as Colombia ... as the United Self-Defense Group of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC); and Colombia’s three largest guerrilla groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...

Violence strangles Colombia intellectuals' voice. BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- Eleven months after he was shot on a Bogota street near his university office, political scientist ...

- a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of ...

Garziao spent many rough nights as a seamstress for the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC) paramilitary group. Now she sews quietly, far from fear and ...