Govt reassures demobilized fighters on legal status
A bill to resolve the status of demobilized paramilitaries, who were left in legal limbo after the Constitutional Court overturned a law protecting them from prosecution, will be passed by…
A bill to resolve the status of demobilized paramilitaries, who were left in legal limbo after the Constitutional Court overturned a law protecting them from prosecution, will be passed by…
Colombia’s request for an extension on the Mine Ban Treaty deadline for removing anti-personnel landmines from its territory is likely to be approved, according to the treaty’s secretariat. Colombia on…
Colombian and Venezuelan ministers agreed during a meeting in Cartagena on strategies to fight drug trafficking in region of their shared border, reports W Radio. Colombia’s Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera…
Ex-Senator Piedad Cordoba questioned the impartiality of a Congress commission assigned to investigate former President Alvaro Uribe’s involvement in the illegal wiretapping of government critics, reports El Tiempo. After a…
Colombia claims that at least 13 guerrillas from the FARC’s 48th Front were killed and two captured in an armed forces attack on a camp close to the border with…
President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday publicly accepted a proposal from Peruvian President Alan Garcia to deepen integration between Colombia, Peru and Chile, according to a press release on the…
The U.S. State Department issues an updated travel warning for U.S. citizens visiting Colombia, adding a caution that “terrorist activity” is a threat. The warning cites the August bombing outside Caracol…
Colombia’s Supreme Court calls journalist Daniel Coronel to testify in a corruption investigation against Senator Ivan Moreno, along with the legal director of Conalvias, a group contracted to work on the Bogota…
Colombia’s Trade, Industry and Tourism Minister Sergio Diaz-Granados traveled to Venezuela Monday to negotiate a free trade agreement with the neighboring country, which blocked Colombian imports in 2009, EFE reports.…