Bogota cop assassinated while on duty
A Bogota police officer was killed in the hours between Thursday night and Friday morning while on duty in Bogota, reported local media Friday. Officer Alvaro Sierra was found…
A Bogota police officer was killed in the hours between Thursday night and Friday morning while on duty in Bogota, reported local media Friday. Officer Alvaro Sierra was found…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General on Friday requested an international warrant for the arrest of retired colonel Jorge Plazas for his involvement in the 1999 murder of journalist and humorist Jaime Garzon.…
Police technicians defused a series of explosives found Tuesday in a soccer field that was being refurbished as a helicopter landing pad for President Juan Manuel Santos’ visit to southwestern…
A witness confirmed there was a plot to assassinate high-profile ex-senator Piedad Cordoba and the Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro earlier in 2012, reported Colombian newspaper La Opinion Sunday. The two…
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe claimed extradited paramilitary leader Diego Murillo Bejerano, alias “Don Berna,” is plotting to assassinate him. “Authorities informed me that the extradited ‘Don Berna’ would be…
Former Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba said she will not be coerced by recent death threats she has received, reported CM radio Thursday. Cordoba, who previously served as a mediator between…
Former Colombian senator and hostage negotiator Piedad Cordoba claimed that she is the target of an assasination plot Wednesday. “It is an assassination scheme that is very well designed and…
An oil union leader and his wife were killed Tuesday in front of their children in southwestern Colombia. Mauricio Arrendondo and his wife Janeth Ordoñez Carlosama were assassinated during the…
A retired police general has been called to testify as part of the on-going investigation into the 1989 assassination of the popular presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, newspaper El Tiempo…