Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, allegedly attacked the country’s second largest oil pipeline on Tuesday, violently ending the temporary unilateral ceasefire called last week. The Caño Limon-Coveñas pipeline targeted by the guerrillas transports crude…
Colombia prosecutors have launched two investigations after allegations that Bogota’s homeless people are being forcibly “disappeared” and given poisoned food. Earlier this week, the capital district’s human rights coordinator, Carmen Teresa…
News that major multinational companies like Coca-Cola are facing terrorism support charges for allegedly financing death squads is stirring major unrest among Colombia’s business community. Coca-Cola, state-run oil company Ecopetrol and 55…
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a $450 million credit line for Colombia, which is set to end a 52-year-long armed conflict with far-left FARC rebels. The credit line will supplement a…
Inhabitants of Colombia’s western Choco province have been on strike for days to demand improvement of their unbearable living conditions. Here is why. For decades, if not centuries, the province…
Colombia’s government has barely compensated millions of war victims of armed conflict, according to a damning report of governmental watchdogs. A commission of delegates of the Inspector General’s Office, the Comptroller General’s…
An army colonel and a captain were sentenced to 50 years in prison this Tuesday for executing two men whose murders were later fraudulently filed as combat kills. Such extrajudicial…
Colombia’s LGBT community received a wave of solidarity on social media sites in response to a march by thousands of Colombians opposing plans to educate children on sexual diversity. Additionally, to counter the thousands who…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos revoked an education manual that sought to protect gay students from bullying after meeting with Catholic Church leaders, highlighting the power of the church in politics and education. The…