Violence continues to plague Cordoba department http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/8940-cordoba-still-plagued-by-paramilitary-violence.html

Despite hopes for peace, following the the mass-demobilization of Colombia's most notorious paramilitary group the AUC, violence in Colombia's northern department of Cordoba remains widespread, as neo paramilitary forces fill the vacuum left by AUC.

According to Verdad Abierta, a Colombian news publication focusing on paramilitaries and the armed conflict in Colombia, the two recent massacres in the towns of Montelibano and Puerto Libertador, which left 16 people dead over one weekend, are not isolated incidents.