[2] He was captured on November 18, 2007 within the scandal known as parapolitics, and sentenced in 2010 to 40 years in prison for diverting public funds to form far-right paramilitary groups and for being the indirect author, according to sentence with file 32805 of February 23, 2010 of the Supreme Court, of the Massacre of 15 people in Macayepo.
[3] Álvaro García was born in Ovejas, Sucre, and grew up on his family's cattle and agriculture farms.
On May 18, 2002, in a debate in Congress on paramilitary politics, Senator Gustavo Petro showed documentary and audio evidence that indicated García Romero had ties to paramilitary groups in Sucre and was involved in the Macayepo massacre, a mass murder carried out on October 16, 2000 by the illegal far-right armed organization known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) in the Macayepo district, in the jurisdiction of Carmen de Bolívar in the department of Bolívar in northern Colombia, where 15 peasants were murdered with machetes, sticks and rocks and nearly 246 families were displaced from their territory.
[5] In February 2010, García Romero was found responsible for being the intellectual author of the massacre and other events related to paramilitarism,[6] such as the murder of San Onofre teacher Georgina Narváez, who had denounced electoral fraud in the department of Sucre.
Throughout his career he has represented the following parties:[10] Among the public offices held by Alvaro Alfonso Garcia Romero, the following are identified: