An official from Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC was jailed for 22 years on Wednesday for extorting prison inmates and falsifying documents, El Espectador reported Wednesday. The official, Luis Enrique…
Negotiating teams from Colombia and Turkey have begun to discuss a free trade agreement between the two states, Spanish news agency EFE reports. Meetings began on Monday in the Turkish…
Six military officials were called to trial Tuesday for the case of an alleged “false positive” killing in 2007, Colombian media reported. The soldiers had been under investigation for the…
The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that will see the granting of extraordinary powers to the government for six months to divide and restructure ministries and state agencies, El Tiempo…
FARC commander “Oliver Solarte,” who was killed Monday by Colombian armed forces in Putumayo, was one of the group’s key drugs and arms smugglers and a link to Mexican drug…
A WikiLeaks cable says that Jose Obdulio Gaviria, then-adviser to ex-President Alvaro Uribe, secretly met with DAS officials in 2009 during a peak period in the wiretaps scandal, contradicting his public…
President Juan Manuel Santos gives his backing to National Police Chief Oscar Naranjo after a former adviser to his predecessor Alvaro Uribe attacked the officer Sunday over revelations in a series of WikiLeaks…
An ex-paramilitary fighter has claimed that part of his former group’s funding came from the looting of emerald mines in the department of Boyaca with the full knowledge of the…
DAS officials arrested former Arauca Governor Julio Enrique Acosta Bernal on Monday on charges of conspiracy, aggravated homicide and links to paramilitary groups while in office, W Radio reports. The…