The National Ombudsmen Office of Colombia has expressed frustration at the government’s slow progress in terms of recognizing legitimate threats to public officials, as well as the delay in protection…
Activists in the Catatumbo region have fallen victim to recent death threats and intimidation efforts by a neo-paramilitary group beginning to emerge in the area, according to human rights reports…
A representative of an indigenous organization on Tuesday said that the notorious neo-paramilitary organization “Los Urabeños” has infiltrated the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca. Los Urabeños hail from northwestern Colombia,…
A community leader and human rights defender was killed in southwestern Colombia Saturday after receiving death threats from the neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras.” Miller Angulo was murdered by assassins on…
Ecuador said Saturday Colombian neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras” is the perpetrator of the Friday kidnapping of an Australian and a British tourist who were rescued the next day. The two…
Four bodies showing signs of torture were found in the southwest of Colombia Monday. According to newspaper El Espectador, the bodies of four men aged between 25 and 28 years…
The left-wing rebel groups FARC and ELN have launched a series of hit and run offensives against civilian and military targets in Colombia’s northeastern Arauca department. During the first week…
Neo-paramilitary group Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) has issued pamphlets in Colombia’s northeastern Arauca department, announcing to join the war between army and left-wing FARC and ELN guerrillas, local newspaper Notillano…
The neo-paramilitary network Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) issued pamphlets on Friday threatening “FARC symphatizers” with “social cleansing” in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department. “The time for social cleansing in northern Cauca has…