Former Colombia congressman sent to prison for 10 years over ties to death squads
A former Colombian congressman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for using far-right paramilitary death squads to get elected into Congress.
A former Colombian congressman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for using far-right paramilitary death squads to get elected into Congress.
The European Union (EU) envoy to Colombia’s peace process met with victims of the conflict who are going through a reparations process in the capital Bogota.
Global soccer federation FIFA wants the former president of Colombia’s Soccer Federation to return $517,000 he admittedly received through bribery and fraud.
Colombia will deploy an extra 5,000 men in a pilot campaign to eradicate coca, the crop used to produce cocaine, while kick-starting crop substition programs that seek to curb an explosive growth…
Colombia’s National Health Institute are closely monitoring at least 15 cases of children born with the birth defect microcephaly to investigate a suspected link to the Zika virus.
ELN guerrillas delivered two Colombian soldiers to the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday, days after the officials incidentally walked into a guerrilla patrol after having fled their army barracks.
Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday he estimated that more than 17,000 FARC rebels will demobilize if a peace deal with the guerrilla group is signed.
Following reports of starving children in the north and west of Colombia, 11 indigenous children is the east of the country also recently died from starvation, according to a senator.
Colombia’s authorities are not convinced of the alleged weekend kidnapping and return of the main whistle-blower of a major sex scandal within the Police.