Prosecutor staff assassinated in west Colombia
An accountant for the prosecutor’s office in the Quindio department was murdered by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Clara Alicia Giraldo was shot while driving her car in the west-central…
An accountant for the prosecutor’s office in the Quindio department was murdered by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Clara Alicia Giraldo was shot while driving her car in the west-central…
Colombian former journalist Olga Cecilia Vega Cubillos on Thursday denied collaborating with either the FARC or the FBI, according to newspaper El Nuevo Heraldo. Vega’s statement was a reaction to Colombian…
Indigenous leader Rodolfo Aricate Amaya was killed by two gunmen outside his home in the Cauca department, south-western Colombia. Amaya, a leader in the Paez community, had been receiving threats…
Carlos Roberto Hoyos Puerta, acting mayor of the town of Chigorodo in the Antioquia department, north-west Colombia, was assassinated by unknown persons in the rural area of Uraba. The attack was…
Venezuela seeks the extradition of Walid Makled, the man believed to have murdered Colombian drug lord Wilber Varela, alias “Jabon” was arrested in Colombia Thursday. Colombian national police commissioner Oscar…
Via his Twitter account, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe mourned the death of prominent Colombian trade unionist Luis German Restrepo Maldonado, who was assassinated in Medellin Thursday. “I reject the assassination…
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the Colombian government for the murder of Patriotic Union Senator Manuel Cepeda in 1994. The judicial body asked President Alvaro Uribe to issue…
Almost half of the 101 trade unionists murdered worldwide in 2009 were Colombian, according to a report released Wednesday by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). According to the report…
Two unknown assailants on Tuesday made an attempt on the life of Ivan Andres Cortes, the assistant magistrate to a Supreme Court judge targeted in the illegal wiretapping operations of…