The AUC conducted over 800 assassinations in one year.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The official line is that the AUC is a right wing group fending off the leftist FARC guerrillas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leo W. Gerard: Bush Administration Welcomed Colombian Free Trade Envoy with Terrorist Ties] Reference

The AUC is a right wing paramilitary group that is accused of drug smuggling and involvement in some of Colombia's many massacres.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2007] Reference

The company acknowledges a subsidiary had paid the right-wing paramilitary group - known by its Spanish acronym AUC - and another group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

In the volatile farming region of Colombia, the company indirectly paid the united self-defense forces known as AUC to protect Chiquita workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2007] Reference

( "AUC") issued its decision on the 2009 Generic Cost of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Alberta Utilities Commission ( "AUC") to construct and operate its Halkirk I Wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Canada: Total and ConocoPhillips Sanction Phase 2 of the Surmont Project] Reference

1997 and 2004 to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known as AUC for its Spanish initials.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Their excesses have finally landed the AUC on the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Aim At The City] Reference

Yet, the charter of AUC states its purposes as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Government] Reference

The December, 1960, membership list of the AUC is in Appendix.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Government] Reference

Moreover, the payments themselves were used by the AUC to buy guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Cray: The Chiquita Story: How the Times Goes Soft on Corporate Crime] Reference

AUC members present described to investigators a heart-breaking scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Jose Apartado Massacre: The Murder Of Colombia's Peace Community] Reference

He told prosecutors that the guides were members of the AUC death squads.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Jose Apartado Massacre: The Murder Of Colombia's Peace Community] Reference

AUC members prohibit university professors from teaching controversial material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Aim At The City] Reference

The road from Cairo to the new AUC campus is a series of villas and gated complexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journalism Boot Camp: Arab Divisions: New Trend in Guest-List Lifestyles Splits Arab Societies] Reference

I like what Woodhouse, Pres. of AUC by Amanda Lang on Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 at 6: 03: 49 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Hypocrite GOP Rep. Cantor Issues Video Laced With Profanity Targeting Unions] Reference

The AUC was more easygoing -- as long as the gangs collaborated in the anti-guerrilla struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Aim At The City] Reference

"Settlements" are made to sustain this arrangement between elected politicians and AUC officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leo W. Gerard: Bush Administration Welcomed Colombian Free Trade Envoy with Terrorist Ties] Reference

The paramilitaries morphed into a private army, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC).    From Wordnik.com.  [Colombians hunt for disappeared loved ones - and their murderers join search] Reference

I think this year the secretary of state has added the Real IRA to this list and the AUC in Colombia.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001] Reference

The AUC, whose leader Carlos Castano-Gil was charged with five counts of drug trafficking in September.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2002] Reference

Declaration of Human Rights, 108; discussed at Soviet-American conference, ii; discussed in AUC purpose, 119.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Government] Reference

And we've just identified another one this week, the AUC in Colombia, and we take certain actions against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2001] Reference

GENERAL MCCAFFREY: Well, I think the question is essentially what's the future in terms of FARC/ELN/AUC action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mccaffrey Et Al] Reference

It's Wednesday afternoon, and I'm stuck in traffic on my way to an event at the American University in Cairo (AUC).    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos Watson: The Jerry Maguire Approach to Foreign Policy] Reference

Top ex-paramilitary commanders have also fingered other U.S. multi-nationals for supporting the AUC over the years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leo W. Gerard: Los Angeles Times to Colombia: Prosecute Corporate Supporters of Terrorism] Reference

Of course, I thought just the opposite, and tried saying that I paid him twice the usual five pounds from AUC to Zamalek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freddy Deknatel: Cairo Cabs and Conversation] Reference

According to AUC economics professor John Salevurakis, much of this construction comes from foreign investment from the Gulf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journalism Boot Camp: Arab Divisions: New Trend in Guest-List Lifestyles Splits Arab Societies] Reference

Romeros (ph) and Jenson (ph) sought to broker the drugs-for - weapons exchange with AUC operatives Lopez (ph) and Emilio (ph).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2002] Reference

From Bogota to Cali, and dozens of other urban centers, gangsters now fight alongside the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Aim At The City] Reference

AUC fighter Joel Vargas told prosecutors that one of his commanders sent the order over the radio: "Assassinate the kids, but silently.".    From Wordnik.com.  [San Jose Apartado Massacre: The Murder Of Colombia's Peace Community] Reference

For those unfamiliar with the AUC, it's a paramilitary group that controls some areas of Colombia like an official military police force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leo W. Gerard: Bush Administration Welcomed Colombian Free Trade Envoy with Terrorist Ties] Reference

The far-right militia the AUC presents itself as "the defenders of business freedom" in Colombia - meaning they massacre trade unionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: My New Year's Resolution is to Lose my Bottle -- and Quit the Coke] Reference

The workers at the factory claim their plant manager would sit outside the factory with AUC paramilitaries, laughing and joking with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: My New Year's Resolution is to Lose my Bottle -- and Quit the Coke] Reference