June 6, 2023 Maria leans on a wooden plank outside her shelter — a collection of corrugated metal, errant bricks, and plastic tarps salvaged from the ruins of an international…
Category: COLOMBIA
Paramilitary Commander Salvatore Mancuso Reveals AUC’s Connections in Colombia
By: Sara Garcia for Insight Crime May 30, 2023 In a recent testimony before the Colombian transitional justice system, one of the most important commanders of the AUC outlined the…
MAPP/OAS Urges Illegal Armed Groups to Join with Determination the Policy of Total Peace in Colombia
May 19, 2023 The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS/OAS) presented today to the Permanent Council Report 34 on the work of the Mission to Support the…
Colombian government winning against Drug traffickers- Osario arrest a big deal!
By: Staff Writer May 9, 2023 The Colombian Navy dealt hard blows to narcotrafficking, leading several combined operations with forces from the region in March, which resulted in the seizure…
Acacio Medina Front – Ex-FARC Mafia
By: Insight Crime April 4, 2023 The Acacio Medina Front is a dissident group that emerged from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC),…
EU LAUNCHES CARIBBEAN DIGITAL ALLIANCE
By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan March 14, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Some €145m from Team Europe, including €50m from the EU budget has been put forward to boost digital cooperation between the European Union-Latin…
Peace Leaders in Putumayo, Colombia Bet Their Lives on Coca Crop Substitution
By: Alicia Florez, Insight Crime March 2023 Community leaders in Colombia’s Putumayo department have historically supported coca substitution programs as part of peace processes aimed at resolving the country’s long-running…
Otoniel Pleads Guilty: Farewell to Colombia’s Last Kingpin
By: Insight Crime January 31, 2023 Otoniel, the fallen head of the Urabeños crime syndicate, has pleaded guilty to a raft of crimes in New York. His trial marks the…
Iván Mordisco’s Reappearance Brings New Challenges to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia
By: Insight Crime October 25, 2022 For the last three months, Colombia believed that Iván Mordisco, one of the foremost leaders of the ex-FARC mafia, had been killed in a…
Venezuela, Colombia, and the ELN at the Crossroads of Peace
By: Insight Crime October 11, 2022 President Gustavo Petro has offered Colombia a tantalizing vision of “Total Peace:” a negotiated end to all the armed conflicts that have plagued the…
Venezuela and the ELN’s Love-Hate Relationship with Drug Trafficking
By: Insight Crime October 11, 2022 In the border area where northeast Colombia’s Catatumbo region meets the northwestern Venezuelan state of Zulia is one of the world’s most seamless cocaine…
Pablito’s Plan: Rise of the ELN in Venezuela
By: Insight Crime October 11, 2022 On the morning of October 7, 2009, prison guards in the west Colombian state of Arauca were tasked with a simple but terrifying task:…