Colombia’s justice system has used preventive detention to keep suspects off the streets during legal proceedings, but a court order and a clogged prosecution may now lead to the exodus of 20,000 crime…
Colombia’s economy is facing a bleak few years before it’ll be able to crawl out of its economic slump, according to a newly released report.
Colombia has not been any safer in 35 years — unless you work with human rights, because threats and murders targeting rights workers increased in the South American country.
To tackle an ever-growing transplant waiting list, Colombia’s senate has passed a bill to make all citizens by default agree to organ donation unless they explicitly opt out.
Police are on a red alert in Bogota after two homemade bombs exploded in front of offices of health intermediary Cafesalud in Colombia’s capital.
In an attempt to stimulate Colombia’s coca farmers to abandon illicit crops, the United Nations has set up a system to buy and sell products from farmers taking part in crop substitution programs.
Legal authorities continue to turn a blind eye to so-called “social cleansing” practices that kill hundreds of “undesirables” in Colombia’s urban areas every year.
The number of Colombians who died in Ecuador’s earthquake rose to nine on Wednesday, while a frightening 223 Colombians remain missing.
The European Union has vowed to release the necessary funds for post-conflict projects once Colombia’s government has signed peace with the FARC, the country’s largest leftist rebel group.