Colombian President Alvaro Uribe slammed plans to question armed forces commander General Freddy Padilla over the “false positives” scandal, in which the army murdered civilians to inflate rebel kill statistics, reports…
Partido de la U presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos claimed on Friday that it was he who put an end to the phenomenon of extrajudicial killings by the military during…
The Colombian government on Thursday released a statement denying that perpetrators of extrajudicial killings known as “false positives” enjoy near-total impunity from justice, saying that the accusation “does not correspond…
A report released on Thursday by a United Nations investigator on extrajudicial killings finds that the perpetrators of the extrajudicial killings in Colombia known as “false positives” enjoy near total…
Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos stressed in an interview Wednesday that he is “not Uribe,” and that if Colombians are “tired of a certain governing style, they can relax.” Despite…
Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus says President Alvaro Uribe and rival candidate Juan Manuel Santos had “moral,” but not “criminal” responsibility for the “false positives” murders of civilians by…
Opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba on Tuesday again criticized Colombian President Alvaro Uribe via social networking website Twitter, accusing his government of putting the state “at the service of a criminal…
Over 3,700 extrajudicial killings, defined as the murder of non-combatants by members of the security forces, were recorded in Colombia over the past seven years, according to investigations by human rights…
Colombian new source El Tiempo asked the presidential candidates whether they think victims of state violence should receive the same reparations as victims of illegal armed groups. “The rights of victims…