Ousted Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro said Thursday he will sue Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for ignoring an international human rights commission’s ruling ordering that Petro be allowed to remain…
Colombia’s national government said Thursday that its economy had grown 4.3% in 2013.
Protests by transportation workers in the southwestern city of Cali resulted in the death of one man and injured at least nine civilians, reported local media on Thursday.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ignored a ruling of an international court Wednesday and signed off on the controversial impeachment of Bogota’s embattled mayor, the leftist Gustavo Petro.
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has decided to allow the sterilization of mentally disabled minors in certain cases despite contradicting a previously signed UN charter and resistance from human rights groups, claimed…
A former FARC leader confessed that he participated in the kidnapping of three American military contractors and held them hostage for almost two years.
A Colombian court has begun proceedings to exclude a former paramilitary boss from judicial benefits he was granted when demobilizing a decade ago. The Prosecutor General’s Office said Monday that…
Colombia’s Inspector General expressed his dissatisfaction with ongoing government peace talks with rebel group FARC, saying Thursday that human rights crimes and drug trafficking could not be considered “political offenses.”
Colombia’s Ministry of Interior has ordered local governments in the southwest and center of the country to initiate emergency plans to deal with the increasing dangers associated with recent heavy…