President Alvaro Uribe

A former militiaman was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role in the murder of journalist Alvaro Alonso Escobar, who was gunned down a decade ago in a coastal town in northern Colombia, the Attorney General’s Office said Monday. Edgar Ariel Cordoba Trujillo was also ordered to pay a fine equivalent to $467,950. The sentence and fine were handed down to Cordoba by a court in Santa Marta, the capital of Magdalena province, the AG’s office said. Two unidentified individuals gunned...Read Full Story

Panama rejected on Friday a request from Colombia to extradite former spy chief Maria del Pilar Hurtado, who faces charges in Bogota over an illegal wiretapping scandal. The foreign ministry cited the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, an international accord on asylum and Panamanian law as reasons for denying Colombia’s request. The ministry also noted an executive order issued last November by Panama’s president granting asylum to Hurtado, who fled Colombia in the fall of 2010...Read Full Story

BOGOTA, Colombia: The chief prosecutor’s office obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas. Read more: Arrest warrant issued for close Uribe associateRead Full Story

BOGOTA, Colombia – The chief prosecutor's office obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas.Read Full Story

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia's chief prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the peace commissioner of ex-President Alvaro Uribe for allegedly arranging a bogus demobilization of leftist guerrillas.Read Full Story