US support for Colombia’s peace process will backfire unless counter-narcotics policies are implemented with much greater patience, according to a new report from a major Colombian think tank. According to…
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Ten people were arrested after authorities found out that mentally challenged children were tied down and drugged in a government-contracted private clinic, authorities said Thursday. The ten worked in a mental…
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A leader of the community that lost seven members in an alleged police massacre has been assassinated in southwest Colombia, the regional government said Tuesday. Jose Jair Cortes was the…
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When Colombia’s government and FARC guerrillas negotiated a deal to end the hemisphere’s longest armed conflict, they also took an unprecedented step toward a more productive and reasonable drug policy.…
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Colombia’s national authorities have begun investigating whether police last week committed a massacre that was blamed on dissident FARC guerrillas. On Monday, the National Police announced it would suspend four…
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International organizations responded with strong statements Friday after a violent incident in southwest Colombia left multiple civilians dead, and over 50 injured. The incident occurred in Tumaco, Nariño, where farmers…
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As evidence and claims mounted that an anti-narcotics unit killed 15 coca growers in Colombia’s worst massacre in years, President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday said that “our public force…
The leader of of leftist political party Patriotic Union (UP) on Thursday claimed she had been threatened by paramilitary group AGC, which immediately rejected the claim. A pamphlet signed by…
Colombia’s police on Sunday opened fire and used teargas against international observers investigating a massacre allegedly carried out by an anti-narcotics unit a few days earlier. The commission existing of…
The Selection Committee for Colombia’s new transitional justice system announced Tuesday the names of 51 magistrates who will investigate and try some of the country’s most serious war criminals. Although…