Colombia’s prosecution is set to charge almost 200 companies, including multinationals like Dole and Del Monte, for financing death squads in the banana-growing region of the country, according to Blu Radio. The radio…
A young woman in a town outside of Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, told authorities on Wednesday that she killed her baby daughter because she looked like her father, reported local…
Deadly attacks against displaced war victims trying to have their land returned cost yet another life on Sunday in an ongoing wave of violence against community leaders in Colombia. The latest killing took…
Three trucks carrying soft drinks and beer were burnt by alleged members of neo-paramilitary group AGC on Wednesday morning as the group violently tries to pressure the government into peace talks. One…
The Colombian state was found guilty of human rights offenses during a 2002 military operation in the country’s second biggest city Medellin by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)…
On the very day Colombia’s defense minister denied the existence of paramilitary groups, local media reported the assassination of three human and civil rights workers by presumed AUC successors. A woman who…
A series of human errors caused an airliner to run out of fuel and crash in Colombia last month, killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian soccer team, aviation…
Brazail’s Chapeco will build a memorial to the victims of a plane crash in Colombia that killed almost its entire soccer team, and will name a plaza after Medellin in a display of…
In spite of being one of Colombia’s most feared criminals in history, slain drug lord Pablo Escobar’s top hitman, “Popeye”, was robbed at gunpoint in Medellin on Monday. According to Popeye,…