AUC, also founded by missionaries, started smaller and later, but has caught up fast.
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Many students in the AUC's first class of kids were poached from Yife's school.
And he insists that they should take on the AUC and the guerrillas alike.
AUC's demand to be included in the search for peace has some powerful backers.
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The Air Transport Users Council (AUC) can investigate complaints from passengers on scheduled flights.
In 2006 several right-leaning congressmen were charged with colluding with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
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AUC's military leadership, at least nominally, and appeared to push the group towards a break with drug-trafficking.
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AUC's next step to be a more concerted effort to seek political power in local and national elections.
In 1999 she was kidnapped by the paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
AUC, which has 8, 500 fighters and boasts it will have 12, 000 by December, up from 4, 000 in 1998.
The main group was the AUC - the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, which officially at least has demobilised.
Uribe has given full support to the investigations against AUC members and affiliates.
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Prosecutors allege Araujo helped finance the AUC and that he was involved in the kidnapping of a political rival.
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Se trata de 800 miembros del bloque "Cacique Nutibara", integrado a las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), la principal fuerza paramilitar colombiana.
AUC, and shared intelligence with it as well as with American-trained troops.
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Al comienzo de esta semana, el mandatario colombiano dijo que los comandantes de las AUC deben presentarse ante los juzgados, o enfrentar arresto.
Las AUC han sido acusadas de perpetrar matanzas y asesinatos selectivos.
It is estimated that AUC has between 10, 000 and 20, 000 men.
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AUC's chiefs worry that Mr Uribe will extradite them to the United States to face drug charges, although the government has tacitly agreed not to.
These revelations are a byproduct of the successful disarmament of AUC.
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The army said on 30 April that 57 members of the AUC had been arrested over the previous three days, and that three more were killed.
About 30, 000 paramilitaries united under the group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, formally demobilized between 2003 and 2006, but many are thought to have since regrouped.
In the Easter attack, the AUC claimed they had killed left-wing guerrillas, but those murdered were unarmed, and according to the authorities some had been killed with chainsaws.
Uribe's administration is under attack for alleged links to AUC.
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The Foreign Minister of Colombia, Maria Consuela Araujo, has resigned after her brother was accused of conspiring with paramilitary groups, among them the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
Las AUC se encuentran desde 2003 en medio de un proceso de paz con el gobierno colombiano en el que, hasta el momento, se han desmovilizado cerca de 11.000 paramilitares.
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The Defence Ministry says that some 2, 000 civilians were also killed, roughly half by the guerrillas and half by the AUC, and around 300, 000 were forced to flee their homes.
The AUC purported to have political aims, fighting leftist guerrillas and acting as the local state where the government was absent, while committing savage murders and engaging in criminal rackets.
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