The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Colombian government both expressed concern over a Colombian Constitutional Court ruling that could halt the suspension of criminal cases against former paramilitaries…
Colombia’s Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez denied accusations from former President Alvaro Uribe that the Supreme Court pressured Ordoñez to rule against government officials, reports El Espectador. The ex-president said that the Supreme Court had…
Political leaders in the southern Colombian Meta department request military support to prevent guerrilla groups setting up illegal checkpoints on the roads, reports Noticiera del Llano. Noticiera del Llano reports…
Twenty-seven alleged members of drug gang “Los Rastrojos” were arrested in ten simultaneous operations carried out across the country, a Popayan judge announced Wednesday, reports Radio Santa Fe. The suspects were…
Colombia’s former tax chief Carlos Espinoza on Wednesday denied accusations of helping David Murcia, head of pyramid scheme DMG, to launder money, claiming he was working undercover for the U.S. Drug…
Photographer Francisco Forero Bonell’s new book, “Colombia Extrema,” is a photographic documentation of Colombia’s diverse landscape, Semana reports. The 160-page book brings together Forero’s best images of Colombia’s richest and…
Israeli mercenary Yair Klein, convicted of training paramilitaries and drug gangs in Colombia, told RCN that the Colombian military paid him to train “security forces.” Klein, who was recently released…
Four policemen were killed in two separate FARC attacks in southern Colombia’s Meta and Caqueta departments, news agency EFE reported Wednesday. In the town of Vistahermosa in the Meta department FARC…
Political leaders from both Colombia’s coalition and opposition parties on Wednesday rejected statements by former President Alvaro Uribe, who defended the political asylum of his former intelligence chief claiming his…