Colombia’s increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque rejected a damning human rights report by the Organization of American States (OAS). In its report, the OAS’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)…
While many in Colombia praise the kids who have protected anti-government protesters against police brutality, authorities are desperately trying to criminalize these so called “First Line” groups. According to Prosecutor…
Medellin’s gangs may have more members than the country’s last-standing guerrilla group, the ELN, in all of Colombia, according to authorities. According to the city’s deputy Security Secretary, Leonardo Buitrago,…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque appears to have given up on combating drug trafficking 50 years after the beginning of the disastrous War on Drugs. For the first time since taking…
A Bogota judge on Saturday jailed a self-proclaimed elite entrepreneur who has allegedly been trafficking drugs and laundering money since the days of the Medellin Cartel. Guillermo León Acevedo, a.k.a.…
Colombia’s migration chief is facing contempt charges and at least two regional directors could go to prison after a bungled cover-up of fraud with US funds to combat human trafficking.…
A subcommittee of the United States’ House of Representatives voted to conditionally approve aid to Colombia’s security forces after a surge in police brutality. The Subcommittee on Appropriations for Foreign…
The PR people of US President Joe Biden and his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque failed to present coherent accounts of the two leaders’ first call on Monday. The press secretaries…
Colombia’s health authorities have stepped up the government’s COVID-19 vaccination drive as the pandemic is collapsing hospitals throughout the country. More than 4,630 people died of the coronavirus over the…