A Bogota journalist of an award-winning story on crime in Bogota told Colombia Reports on Thursday that she had received death threats. Tatiana Salamanca had published a series of pieces…
FARC dissident groups have swollen to contain some 2,300 members, Reuters reported Wednesday based on military documents. According to the news agency, one third of the FARC that demobilized in…
Medellin’s hard-line approach to crime seems to be failing as the city helplessly watches its murder rate skyrocket, experts have warned. Since Mayor Federico Gutierrez took office in 2016, the…
The former head of Colombia’s mining association ACM and CEO of gold mining firm Minesa has been caught on video saying that “communities don’t matter” for decision makers in Bogota…
Rescue workers have recovered the remains of 32 victims of a landslide that buried eight homes in southwest Colombia, according to disaster response agency UNGRD. Bodies were still being recovered…
One of Colombia’s leading opposition senators, Gustavo Petro, said he has received death threats after a video of him receiving cash was made public by a political opponent. Petro said…
Colombia’s Truth Commission launched on Thursday with the hope of bringing closure to victims of the half-century conflict between FARC guerrillas and the state. The commission was born out of…
Police allegedly attacked protesters as more than half a million people, mainly students, took to the streets for the largest protest calling for more public university funding this year. During…
Five people died on Monday after a structure fell at the building site of a bridge that collapsed and killed 10 people earlier this year. Workers were at the site…