Latin America’s literary master not only hails from Aracataca, a village in the center of Colombia’s banana domains. He was born just a year before the most bloody event in the nation’s ...

The Conquering Self Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada, also known as Los Pachenca, is an armed group on Colombia's Caribbean coast.

In the United States Court of the Southern District of Florida, Chiquita Brands International was recently found liable for financing the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitaries.

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).

Nor did AUC forces ever attack Chiquita Brands operations institutionally—a fact that Charles “Buck” Keiser, who directed Chiquita’s operations in Colombia from 1987 to 2000, admitted ...

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

Mancuso headed the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia – AUC), which controlled vast areas of coca production across the country. The paramilitary group needed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...