NGO: 6,000 narco-paramilitaries active in Colombia
According to a report published Friday by Colombian NGO the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), at least 6,000 narco-paramilitaries were active in Colombia in the first half of…
According to a report published Friday by Colombian NGO the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), at least 6,000 narco-paramilitaries were active in Colombia in the first half of…
Fighting continues between the Colombian army and FARC guerrillas in Colombia’s southern Putumayo department. According to the latest police report, six policemen and two guerrillas have been killed in combat,…
The Colombian Constitutional Court ruled that conscientious objectors to Colombia’s compulsory military service have the right to request an exemption from duty. In a 111 page document, the court gave…
Guerrillas have killed eight policemen and are occupying a police station in the southern Colombian department of Putumayo, close to the Ecuadorean border. Putumayo police commander General Orlando de Jesus…
More than 150 young members of Medellin gangs on Thursday signed a peace pact in which they agreed to stop committing acts of violence and turn their weapons over to the…
Colombia’s Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez announced Thursday that former Interior and Justice Minister Sabas Pretelt de la Vega has officially requested that bribery charges against him be dropped. “This morning…
A female minor planted the bomb that exploded Wednesday afternoon outside the office of intelligence agency DAS in the southern Colombian city of Pasto, Nariño, according to witness testimony, local…
U.S. President Barack Obama denies that increasing drug-related violence in Mexico is comparable to Colombia’s fight against drug traffickers in the 1980s, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton controversially claimed.…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe stressed the importance of Colombia’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the U.S. during his first lecture to students of the Edmund A. Walsh School of…