Piedad Cordoba barred from public office for 18 years
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba has been barred from holding public office for 18 years by the country’s inspector general for having ties to guerrilla group FARC.
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba has been barred from holding public office for 18 years by the country’s inspector general for having ties to guerrilla group FARC.
Colombian security and intelligence agency DAS has had opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba under surveillance since 1979, according to testimony from a DAS official. Fabio Duarte Translaviña is one of eleven…
South American news network Telesur on Tuesday defended former employee William Parra after a Colombian judge issued an arrest warrant against him over his alleged links to the FARC. According…
A Colombian judge ordered the arrest of, and requested an international warrant against, William Parra, a Colombian journalist from international news network Telesur who is suspected of having ties to…
Colombia’s Supreme Court President Jaime Arrubla said Monday that his judicial body has not seen conclusive evidence that Senator Piedad Cordoba is guilty of “FARC-politics.” According to Arrubla, the inspector general’s investigation…
Colombian opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba on Thursday filed a criminal complaint against the country’s Inspector General for allegedly illegally starting an investigation against her over the Senator’s alleged ties to…
A FARC fighter being held in Colombian prison claims that the guerrilla group supported two mayors and a Partido de la U congressman in the central Cundinamarca department, reports CM&. The former…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba did not attend the Inspector General’s official reading of the “FARC-politics” charges against her Monday, but over 200 people rallied outside the building in a show of…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba sought to rally French support for a “humanitarian exchange” of FARC hostages for incarcerated guerrillas, at a conference in Paris Wednesday. “In Europe, the war in…