60,000 paramilitary and rebel victims seek compensation
Victims of rape, torture, kidnapping and other crimes by illegal armed groups have submitted a flood of applications and made thousands of phone calls to the Colombian Compensation Commission…
Victims of rape, torture, kidnapping and other crimes by illegal armed groups have submitted a flood of applications and made thousands of phone calls to the Colombian Compensation Commission…
Six former members of paramilitary group AUC Thursday were sentenced to sixty years imprisonment for the massacre of forty fishermen in the north of Colombia in 2000. The six member…
Colombia enacted the most business reforms of any Latin American country in the last year, says a new World Bank report. Chile remains the most business-friendly country in Latin America,…
Imagine Shakira and Juanes on American Idol and you’ll understand the third annual “English Song Festival”. Forget talk-along audio tapes and classroom conversations — Colombians will step to the microphone…
Colombia collected 45.7 billion pesos in taxes between January and August of this year, including a 10 percent increase in August over last year, show preliminary numbers. Despite the increase,…
Residents have been urged to abandon their homes in a scattering of towns in the western departments of Cauca and Huila as officials put a yellow alert in effect in…
Striking judicial workers wages were suspended Wednesday, as the eight-day nationwide walkout of an estimated 40,000 workers prompted the appointment of 22 provisional judges to handle emergency business. The…
Nearly 4,000 girls and boys have demobilized from Colombian paramilitaries and guerrilla groups since a program for minors began in 1999. A third were 15-years-old or younger. Of the 3,750…
Colombia’s chief prosecutor suspended two Medellín prosecutors and the ex-adviser of the city’s former chief prosecutor, as the investigation into drug trafficking influence in the country’s second largest city widens. All…