Colombia’s increase in homicides is mainly due to assassinations that doubled between 2017 and last year, a study revealed. According to think tank Futuros Urbanos, 61% of the homicides committed…
Homicides in Colombia went up 3% in 2019, according to the country’s Medical Examiner’s Office, which is contradicting government claims homicides dropped. The Medical Examiner’s Office, whose numbers are used…
For the second consecutive year, homicides in Colombia are increasing, according to the country’s medical examiner’s office. According to a preliminary report, 8,612 were murdered between January and September, a…
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday that the country’s homicide rate has dropped to 25.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, the lowest since 1976. During his weekly press meeting on public…
The homicide rate in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, diminished 11% during the first three months of 2013, compared to the same period in 2012, a local government agency said Tuesday.
Over 18,200 Colombians went missing during 2009, up from almost 15,700 in 2008, according to an annual report issued by Colombia’s forensics agency, Medicina Legal, Radio Santa Fe reported Wednesday. The…
A Colombian NGO warns that the number of homicides in the country’s major cities has skyrocketed in January, led by Medellin with more than 200 murders, radio Caracol reported on…
While National Police Director Oscar Naranjo said the homicide rate in Colombia dropped in the last years, Medellin’s forensic institute complains about a lack of personnel to handle all autopsies.…