Violence in Colombia’s main gold mining region escalated after Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez declared “total war” on illegal mining on March 1. The announcement almost immediately triggered a miners’ strike…
Colombia’s chief prosecutor closed a prosecution office in the north of the country after paramilitaries allegedly kidnapped three officials for interrogation. In a press release, Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa said…
Paramilitary group “Los Caparrapos” shut down the Bajo Cauca region in northern Colombia, threatening to kill anyone who disobeyed their order to stay inside. The paramilitaries announced the so-called “armed…
The leader of paramilitary group “Los Caparrapos” was killed in combat in northern Colombia, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. “Cain” was killed in a military operation in Taraza, a municipality…
Paramilitaries assassinated two people, injured two and displaced 70 on Tuesday, two hours after Colombia’s President Ivan Duque left the Bajo Cauca region where he vowed to improve security for…
The troubled Bajo Cauca region, located in the north of Colombia, is a major drug trafficking corridor and a hotbed of criminal activity. The subregion lies in the northeast of…
Four people have been murdered in northern Colombia where multiple armed groups are vying for control over former FARC territory, local media reported Monday. The massacre took place in a…
A town in a war-torn region in northern Colombia has been left without a hospital after the killing of a doctor spurred his colleagues to flee on Sunday. Doctor Cristian…
Colombia’s government has begun responding to Ombudsman alerts over possible violence against social leaders, more than 430 of whom have beenĀ assassinated since the beginning of a peace process in 2016.…