An annual study on Medellin released by Como Vamos Medellin on Tuesday found that deteriorating security conditions and violence affected the quality of life of the central Colombian city’s residents…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Tuesday that if a government is responsible for ordering illegal wiretaps, then those involved would be jailed, including the president, reported Caracol Radio. Speaking…
The Wiwa indigenous community, of which many had to leave their native lands surrounding the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region during the forced mass displacements of 2004-2006, continue to…
Two suspected members of Colombian guerrilla organization the FARC were killed in Ecuadorian territory in a confrontation with the country’s armed forces, the European Press Agency reported Monday. According to…
A former DAS official, implicated in the security agency’s illegal wiretapping of Supreme Court judges, turned himself in to authorities in Bogota on Monday, reports El Espectador. Gustavo Sierra, the…
An attack by the FARC guerrilla group on Sunday night left 30,000 residents without electricity in the south-western town of Barbacoas, in Colombia’s Pacific coast department of Nariño, El Espectador…
A article published Saturday in El Tiempo documents the intertwined networks that exist between Colombia’s various neo-paramilitary groups, drug cartels, left-wing guerrillas, and a Russian trafficking syndicate, all of whom have…
Catalina Botero, the special rapporteur for freedom of expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), said Friday that journalists in Colombia lack freedom of expression due to death…
An American Airlines flight from Colombia to the U.S. was forced to turn back shortly after take-off due to the presence of smoke in the cabin, reports El Espectador. The…