Colombia’s embattled police chief said Wednesday that a demand by student leaders to dismantle the controversial anti-riot police unit ESMAD is the same as that of guerrilla group ELN. The…
The days of Colombia’s loathed anti-riot police unit ESMAD may be numbered after its brutal attempts to repress anti-government protests triggered multiple investigations and increased calls for its dismantlement. In…
Medellin police attacked students on Thursday hours after the mayor praised the residents of Colombia’s second largest city for the peaceful nature of anti-government protests earlier that day. The attack…
Colombia’s students will celebrate Halloween on the streets of the capital Bogota on Thursday to demand the dismantling of the anti-riot police unit that keeps beating them up. The protests…
Sources within Bogota’s Police department have confirmed that two of its officers took part in vandalism that triggered violent repression of student protests in Colombia’s capital on Friday, according to…
A student protest against corruption escalated in Colombia’s capital Bogota and left at least five people injured, local media reported on Wednesday. Students of the District University in Bogota began…
A protest of local miners that started off peacefully in two central Colombian towns has somehow created a humanitarian crisis, warned a human rights commission that visited the areas along…
Members of Colombia’s feared ESMAD riot unit must take compulsory courses in human rights, the country’s State Council ordered while convicting the unit for killing a student during a protest.…
Colombia’s anti-riot police unit ESMAD launched tear gas and water cannons at teachers in the capital Bogota as the educators’ strike demanding increased education investment completes one month. In a…