Elections in Colombia are won with checkbooks, not policies, according to Aida Avella, the Patriotic Union’s (Union Patriotica — UP) candidate for president. In an interview with Colombia Reports, Avella explained...
The latest stop in former President Alvaro Uribe’s Velez campaign for the Colombian Senate ended in a police crackdown Sunday as violence erupted in the Northern city of Cucuta, according to national media sources. Uribe...
Colombian officials have reported that 80 percent of demobilized minors who formerly belonged to an illegal armed group joined voluntarily. According to the government’s High Commission for Reintegration, more than 80% of...
Child prostitution is not more prevalent in Cartagena than in other Colombian cities, though there is a greater awareness of the problem, according to the Colombian branch of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)....
