Land registry to be overhauled for helping land grab
Colombia plans to reform the body that oversees the country’s notary and registry offices, due to findings that these organizations helped steal land from rural farmers. Minister of the Interior…
Colombia plans to reform the body that oversees the country’s notary and registry offices, due to findings that these organizations helped steal land from rural farmers. Minister of the Interior…
The government moves to stop corruption in the judiciary after reports that auxiliary magistrates often draw large pensions after holding posts for only a few weeks, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. Interior…
Minister German Vargas Lleras said that a group of officials “apparently” stole valuable information from the government of the Magdalena department. The interior and justice minister called for an investigation…
The Minister of Interior and Justice said that seven governors have not yet provided details of how they plan to use relief money to help those affected by the rainy…
Colombia’s interior and justice minister will meet with the director of prison authority INPEC to discuss reforming the scandal-hit penitentiary system. Newspaper El Tiempo reported Wednesday that Minister German Vargas…
Colombia’s government announces that all governors must take action to aid flood victims within a week, or they will be replaced, according to a government press release. “By [next] Wednesday,…
Colombia says it will not meet the demands of the almost 2,000 people recently displaced by violence in Antioquia, on the grounds that they represent the wishes of the FARC,…
Criminal gangs like the Rastrojos or those that emerged from paramilitary organization AUC are a “new enemy” of the Colombian authorities, the country’s Interior and Justice Minister told national radio.…
Colombia will issue a decree obliging inhabitants of flood-struck areas in the north of the country to evacuate when ordered by authorities., says the Interior and Justice Minister. According to…