Political crisis threatens Santos coalition
President Juan Manuel Santos is set to meet with members of the Conservative Party Monday to try and avoid a political crisis within the National Unity coalition. Frictions began to…
President Juan Manuel Santos is set to meet with members of the Conservative Party Monday to try and avoid a political crisis within the National Unity coalition. Frictions began to…
There are 654 foreigners incarcerated in Colombia, according to a report by Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC, reported Spanish news agency EFE Monday. “In recent years the number of foreigners…
A paramilitary known as “Visaje” escaped from custody in Monteria, northern Colombia, while being transferred to a hearing, reports El Tiempo. Carlos Andres Palencia Gonzalez was being moved from the…
Politicians convicted for links to paramilitaries and jailed in Bogota’s infamous La Picota prison are getting special privileges, such as vallenato parties and regular trips outside of the jail, reports Caracol Radio. In…
Officials at the infamous La Modelo prison in Bogota told the Colombian prison authority (INPEC) that COP77 million ($38,000) was stolen from a safe in the administrative section of the…
Colombian paramilitary leader Daniel Alejandro Serna, alias “Kener,” was recaptured on a farm outside Medellin on Tuesday, two days after allegedly fleeing house arrest. The fugitive, leader of the Medellin…
Colombia’s national prison authority (INPEC) on Monday denied responsibility for the escape from house arrest of the former leader of Medellin paramilitary group the “Office of Envigado,” Daniel Alejandro Serna,…
The Prosecutor General opened an investigation into the disappearance of 36,000 files that went missing from Colombia’s prison authority’s (INPEC) warehouse. Authorities arrested Guillermo Gonzalez, the coordinator of the INPEC…
Failures of Colombia’s prison authority INPEC have led to the untimely release of more than 60 dangerous criminals and paralyzed investigation on paramilitary crimes, newspaper El Heraldo reported Thursday. It…