Cordoba says FARC hostages released before April
The ten FARC hostages the guerrilla group on Sunday promised to release will be free by the end of March, former Colombian senator and hostage mediator Piedad Cordoba said Wednesday.…
The ten FARC hostages the guerrilla group on Sunday promised to release will be free by the end of March, former Colombian senator and hostage mediator Piedad Cordoba said Wednesday.…
Former Colombian Army Colonel Luis Fernando Borja confessed to 50 extrajudicial killings, known as “false positives,” reported local media Tuesday. Borja’s admission was part of his confession to the 2008 murder…
An anti-narcotics police unit was attacked in northern Colombia, reported local media Wednesday. Medellin police told Colombia Reports, six police were injured and one died on the way to a…
Locals have raised doubts about a case of torture allegedly carried out by guerrilla group FARC in a town in the southwest of Colombia last week, said local media Tuesday.…
Colombia’s Interior Minister German Vargas said the government will protect those seeking to reclaim land, reported local media Tuesday. The minister’s comments come a day after UN spokesperson Todd Howland…
The UN representative to Colombia said Monday the country’s victims law has “holes” because threats and violence against displaced farmers seeking to reclaim land is impeding successful implementation. The law,…
More than 2,000 disappearances have been reported in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, in the past two years, said the local ombudsman Friday. A study, entitled “Human Rights in Medellin…
A Colombian priest will be re-sentenced for the murder of his lover and their child, after a judge decided his previous sentence was insufficient, reported local media Friday. According to investigators,…
Numerous Colombian rights groups and farmers who want their stolen land returned said Thursday they are receiving threats from an apparently newly formed “anti land restitution army.” The group vowing…