A sixth teacher has been reported murdered in Colombia this year on Tuesday, highlighting continuing challenges for President Juan Manuel Santos’s promise to make Colombia “the most educated in Latin America.”
With a career in journalism that spanned over 40 years, Luis Eduardo Cardozo was killed in his home in western Colombia.
Colombia has seen a drop in the murder of human rights defenders and community leaders compared to last year, but a recent report by a Colombian NGO indicated that death…
A former council member and mayoral candidate in Colombia’s northern state of Santander was killed on Thursday night by two men on a motorcycle.
Luis Carlos Galan, a favored presidential candidate and outspoken enemy of Colombia’s drug cartels, was assassinated 25 years ago on August 18 during a campaign rally outside Bogota.
A local journalist was assassinated in northern Colombia only weeks after the government removed his protective detail, media and the local press freedom watchdog said Tuesday.
The 15th anniversary this Wednesday of the death of beloved Colombian comedian and reporter, Jaime Garzon, comes at a time when a vital suspect in his assassination case has been arrested.
A notorious commander of the FARC rebel group, Colombia’s largest, now has another sentence to answer for in the event that he is one day captured, reported national media Monday.
A Colombia Army captain was murdered in the southwestern state of Caqueta in an apparent attack from members of the guerrilla group the FARC, Colombian media reported on Tuesday.