Japan and UN to donate $2.5m to Soacha
Japan and the United Nations (UN) will donate more than $2.5 million towards reinforcing security in the town of Soacha, just south of Colombia’s capital city Bogota. “Almost 50 years…
Japan and the United Nations (UN) will donate more than $2.5 million towards reinforcing security in the town of Soacha, just south of Colombia’s capital city Bogota. “Almost 50 years…
Presidential candidate Gustavo Petro says that if he is elected to office, he will allow the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate President Alvaro Uribe for involvement in extrajudicial killings, or…
Dozens of people were murdered by the Colombian army and presented as guerillas killed in combat in the central Meta department, according to leaders from the now-demobilized paramilitary group AUC. Former…
The FARC issued a press release accusing Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of measuring his government’s success in “liters of blood.” The statement, published on the Anncol website, highlights the 2008…
The United Nations on Thursday criticized the alleged appearance of paid false witnesses in the ongoing trials of Colombian soldiers for cases of extrajudicial executions. The United Nations Office of…
Juan Manuel Santos, presidential candidate for Partido de la U, had to be escorted by police from a university in the Colombian city of Cali on Wednesday after student protesters…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said this weekend that members of the army who commit “false positives” killings do not receive “a single penny as reward” from the government, reported Caracol…
The Research Center for Popular Education and the Program for Peace (CINEP/PP) is disputing claims by presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos that the “false positives” scandal, over the army’s murder of civilians,…
Colombia’s army is implicated in over 2,300 civilian murders investigated by Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office in the last 25 years, according to a special report published by Caracol Radio Monday.…