Tag: Paramilitary

• Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Petro OK with meeting former paramilitary leaders

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday said he was willing to meet with former paramilitary leaders to discuss the peace process. The head of state, a former guerrilla fighter himself, insisted that those who have served their sentences and who have publicly expressed their willingness to meet should explain “to what extent” the “peace process ... can be finished and finalized.”

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Colombian ex paramilitary boss deported back from the US

  

  REUTERS – A Colombian ex paramilitary boss accused of crimes including torture and murder was deported from the United States on Monday, Bogotá migration authorities revealed. Hernan Giraldo, 72, was extradited to the United States from Colombia in 2008, where he served a 12-year sentence for drug trafficking offenses.

• Saturday, October 10th 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  Arrested para-military plotters planning to kidnap Michigan governor also targeted taking over the state

  

  Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and her family were at times moved around by authorities as law enforcement tracked the men who allegedly plotted for months to kidnap her, the state's attorney general said on Friday.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 10:31 UTC

  Morales backtracks on intention of creating armed civilian militias as in Venezuela if he returns to Bolivia

  

  Exiled former Bolivian president Evo Morales backtracked on Thursday from a vow to create armed civilian militias similar to notorious 'colectivos' in Venezuela, were he to be allowed back to his homeland.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Two “Bloody Sunday” families have been awarded compensations

  

  The families of two men shot dead on Bloody Sunday, January 1972, have been awarded a combined £700,000 in compensation. The family of Gerard McKinney, a 35-year-old father-of-eight, who was shot dead at Abbey Park in Londonderry, were awarded £625,000. Michael McDaid, 20, was killed near a barricade in Rossville Street. His family received £75,000.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Violence in Nicaragua leaves the dialogue in suspense

  

  14 lives claimed the increase of violence in Nicaragua, which is about to break the the dialogue to resolve the crisis that left some 250 dead in almost three months of protests against President Daniel Ortega.