The head of the National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (NRRC) said that reparations made to victims by demobilized paramilitaries under Colombia’s Justice and Peace process have been “absolutely insufficient,” reports…
Despite the scandals that have plagued his leadership, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s popularity remains high as his term comes to an end due to his success in improving security conditions…
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, Colombians largest and oldest insurgent group, are urging Colombians to abstain from voting in the upcoming presidential elections on Sunday. In a…
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…
Thirteen hundred U.S. activists signed a letter to the president of Chiquita Brands, demanding that the fruit company donate all profits earned in Colombia to victims of the paramilitaries that…
International human rights watchdog Amnesty International says in its annual The State of the World’s Human Rights report that Colombian government security forces, paramilitaries, and guerrillas are all guilty of serious…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Monday stressed the importance of maintaining a strong security policy, following Sunday’s FARC attack in the Amazon jungle that left nine Colombian soldiers dead. “This…
Nine marines from the Colombian navy were killed in combat with FARC insurgents Sunday afternoon, in the southern Amazonian department of Caqueta, according to local media reports. Details of the…
The Thursday takeover of a Bogota university’s central square by armed ELN guerrillas was an act of aggression against the university, claims the rector, Moises Wasserman, on Friday. According to Wasserman,…