Colombia’s indigenous authorities reiterated on Saturday that they will not allow any armed group, legal or illegal, into autonomous territory. The native Colombian leaders rejected Interior Minister Nancy Patricia Gutierrez’…
Colombia’s government has come under fire from all sides over the mass killing of indigenous leaders. The United Nations, Congress, regional authorities and indigenous authorities have criticized the administration of…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Wednesday ordered the military to send 2,500 soldiers to southwest Colombia where alleged FARC dissidents massacred an indigenous governor and four indigenous guards. Following a…
President Ivan Duque traveled to southwest Colombia on Wednesday to attend what indigenous authorities call a genocide. Following the latest massacre in which an indigenous governor and four guards were…
An indigenous governor and four indigenous guards were killed in a massacre in southwest Colombia on Tuesday, according to local authorities. Five more people were injured. According to local indigenous…
Colombia defense minister on Tuesday claimed that a human rights defender who was allegedly murdered by soldiers “died in a military operation.” The controversy over the death of Flower Jair…
The United Nations on Monday condemned the assassination of the sixth indigenous guard in just weeks in the troubled southwest of Colombia. Toribio Canas, 53, was gunned down at his…
Colombia’s foreign minister said Friday that he had no information that would confirm claims by Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno that FARC dissidents have been involved in violent anti-government protests. In…
After a year of inaction, Colombia’s Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) promised to help an indigenous community on the border with Venezuela after footage of children eating from a garbage dump…