Colombian authorities are primarily combating the lowest echelons of the international drug trade, cocaine production. Nariño is one of the long-neglected areas where this is rife. Like the presidential palace…
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Colombia’s prosecutor general has opened 156 corruption cases against politicians, judges and prosecutors since taking office in July last year, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Saturday. The newspaper did not…
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Colombia’s Office of the Inspector General announced it would investigate 36 policemen and 14 soldiers for their involvement in a massacre in which east least seven farmers were killed earlier…
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The leader of of leftist political party Patriotic Union (UP) on Thursday claimed she had been threatened by paramilitary group AGC, which immediately rejected the claim. A pamphlet signed by…
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Former Medellin and Norte del Valle Cartel members have come out in defense of former President Alvaro Uribe’s brother, whose murder and conspiracy trial starts Friday. Santiago Uribe will have…
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Colombia’s Radical Change, the political party led by former vice president German Vargas, is leaving the political coalition led by President Juan Manuel Santos, according to media Tuesday. The move by Vargas,…
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A commercial carbon tax, formalized under the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos in June, is showing early signs of success. The new policy, which imposes a $5 tax for…
Six year’s after Colombia’s government announced the construction of new prisons, this initiative is marred by corruption allegations and the failure to deliver two thirds of the promised prison cells.…
Newspaper El Tiempo’s Juan Gossain recently uncovered Colombia’s “first corruption scandal” in history, dating all the way back to 1602. The scandal unfolded in Santa Fe de Bogota, when the…
Colombia’s anti-riot police (ESMAD) on Sunday killed an indigenous journalist engaged in a protest over land ownership in the southwest of the country. Members of the Kokonuko peoples have been…