Opposition senator survives assassination attempt in southwest Colombia
A native Colombian senator survived an assassination attempt on Thursday while on his way to the commemoration of a massacre in the southwest of the country. The car of Senator…
A native Colombian senator survived an assassination attempt on Thursday while on his way to the commemoration of a massacre in the southwest of the country. The car of Senator…
Five senators of Colombia’s opposition filed criminal charges against the security forces said Thursday they are not contemplating suicide, just in case. Opposition Senator Gustavo Bolivar recorded himself and four…
Colombia’s Supreme Court nullified an 18-year sentence imposed on one of the country’s most renowned indigenous leaders for the retention and flogging a Colombian soldier who had illegally entered their…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General and Inspector General on Monday called on the Supreme Court to overturn a decision to incarcerate one of the country’s most prominent indigenous leader for the detention of an…
Colombia’s Justice Ministry said Thursday that one of the country’s most prominent indigenous leaders will serve his sentence for illegally retaining a military official in a detention center inside an indigenous reserve.
A national peace prize winner and indigenous leader of a reserve in southern Colombia was arrested for kidnapping an army officer in 2008, striking tensions between indigenous and the state.
A indigenous leader from the southwest of Colombia has received death threats from paramilitaries, reported local media Sunday. The leader from the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca (ACIN),…
A Colombian judge has ordered the release of indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia, who was arrested Saturday for his role in the 2008 capture and whipping of a Colombian soldier on…