After 52 years of bloody armed conflict and three years of some secret and some informal negotiations, the Colombian state and the ELN, the country’s last-standing rebel group, have agreed…
More than 150,000 people were disappeared during Colombia’s half-a-century armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. More than half of them are still missing. The number of forcibly disappeared…
Colombia’s so-called “false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by the military that dressed their victims as guerrillas to present them as combat kills…
Updated crime and security statistics for Medellin, Colombia, including data on homicide, armed robbery and extortion.
Colombia once broke global kidnapping records, but the ongoing deescalation of the armed conflict and improved law enforcement has made the practice a minor threat for public security. The practice…
Some 4% of the world’s population has consumed cocaine in his or her life. That is almost 300 million people. Approximately half of this cocaine comes from Colombia. In 2016, 18 million…
More than 7 million people were displaced during Colombia’s armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. Before this government agency took charge of maintaining the registry of conflict victims,…