What does AUC stand for?

Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Prosecutors say the cartel also relied on the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia for protection.

Colombian drug lord pleads guilty to racketeering

Aa Calvo OspinaCOs study synthesizes a wealth of testimony, documents, news reports, eye witness accounts and human rights investigations detailing the organic links between the Colombian government (including the Uribe cabinet) over 60 members of ColombiaCOs congress (allied to Uribe), right-wing governors and mayors and the 30,000 strong death squads, the principle of which was Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia).

Book Review: Colombia, Laboratory of Witches

Garcia claims that the scam was ordered and financed by Rodrigo Tovar, alias Jorge 40, the head of one of the military wings of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)--Colombia's main paramilitary umbrella organization.

COLOMBIA: ALLEGATIONS OF MASSIVE VOTE FRAUD LEAD TO PROSECUTION OF ...

The Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia paramilitary forces slaughtered more than 200 unarmed civilians in January 2001 alone and are guilty of more than 80 per cent of the human-rights violations in the country.

Dirty war

Aa Calvo OspinaeCOs study synthesizes a wealth of testimony, documents, news reports, eye witness accounts and human rights investigations detailing the organic links between the Colombian government (including the Uribe cabinet) over 60 members of ColombiaeCOs congress (allied to Uribe), right-wing governors and mayors and the 30,000 strong death squads, the principle of which was Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia).

Book Review: Colombia, Laboratory of Witches

But right-wing Colombian paramilitary leader Salvador Mancuso denied that his Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) were involved.

VENEZUELA: COLOMBIAN PARAMILITARIES ARRESTED NEAR CARACAS FOR ...

Despite the public relations sheen, the poster is from the paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, not the Colombian Army.

"Mami" Warbucks

Leaders of the paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) say the group has disbanded.

COLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY GROUP DISBANDS