Right-wing extremist group Agulias Negras sent out a death threat to congressmen, human rights advocates and journalists on Tuesday. Ivan Cepeda, senator of the socialist Democratic Pole party, tweeted out…
Right-wing extremist group the Aguilas Negras are threatening to kill anyone who opposes Colombia’s new president, Ivan Duque. In the latest death threat and manifesto by the group’s “Southwestern Bloc,”…
Far-right group Aguilas Negras has vowed to “exterminate” all Colombia’s human rights defenders and social leaders, calling them “guerrillas in disguise.” In a death threat sent to dozens of organizations…
Gustavo Petro, who lost to President’select Ivan Duque in elections last month, said Monday that former campaign workers are receiving death threats throughout the country. Petro said on Twitter that…
Almost 700 people have been displaced from their communities in western Colombia after paramilitary incursions, the United Nations said Wednesday. According to the international organization, the inhabitants of five indigenous…
Nobody knows who carried out Saturday’s bomb attack in Colombia’s capital Bogota, but there are several likely suspects with the motives, opportunity and means to carry out such a high-impact…
It took court orders, but Colombia’s hard-right former President Alvaro Uribe has begun asking forgiveness to victims of war crimes and journalists after years of refusing to do so. Uribe’s most recent apology…
With the demobilization of the FARC underway, Colombia has vowed to combat the guerrillas’ rival paramilitary and crime groups that for decades have influenced society and politics. Amid increasing pressure to comply with commitments made in a…
Colombia’s peace process could be the prelude to a bloodbath as new paramilitary groups are forming with the explicit intent to kill any “undesirable,” a newly released documentary shows. The 20-minute film…