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The Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis (Spanish: Secuestro de los diputados del Valle del Cauca) refers to the kidnapping of 12 Deputies of the Assembly of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on April 12, 2002 by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to pressure a prisoner exchange between them and the government and to negotiate the demilitarization of the municipalities of ...
Colombia has a high crime rate due to being a center for the cultivation and trafficking of cocaine.The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity conflict between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates, and left-wing guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to ...
9 May – At least nine Colombian policemen are killed, and six others injured, from a bomb planted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Santander Department. [ 6 ] 14 May – Jorge Daniel Castro , the head of the Colombian National Police force and Guillermo Chavez, the intelligence chief, resign over an illegal wiretapping scandal.
Police in Colombia announced the arrest this week of a woman nicknamed "The Doll," who local media reported to be a notorious hitwoman employed by a criminal gang linked to multiple murders in the ...
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia Mass Murder of 15 Peasants By Héroes de los Montes de María, a unit of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) Chengue Massacre: January 17, 2001 Chengue, Ovejas, Sucre: 27 0 United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia 27 people are killed with mortars and machetes by AUC [50] [51] Alto Naya massacre
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Law enforcement operations against organized crime in Colombia (1 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 19 January 2025, at 00:28 (UTC). Text ...
Known as "The Monster of the Andes"; raped and killed young girls across Colombia, Ecuador and Peru [12] Luis Alberto Malagón Suárez: 1995–2001 6 6+ Incarcerated Known as "The Sadist of Rincón"; kidnapped, raped, and killed five girls from 1995 to 1997 in Suba, and later killed his wife [13] Tomás Maldonado Cera: 2002–2018 7 10 Incarcerated