President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Monday the appointment of the new minister of justice following the division of the Interior and Justice Ministry, various media reported. The administration of…
The Colombian government has identified the cadavers of nearly 10,000 people, many listed as disappeared, who were buried anonymously in various mass graves throughout the country. Interior and Justice Minister…
Colombian drug enforcement authorities have thus far failed to fully obey an order issued by Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras to remove a potentially corrupt manager from the…
Colombia’s extreme and prolonged rainy season has caused the deaths of 116 people, and serious injury to 87 more, in the four months since January 2011, the Colombian government announced.…
The Interior and Justice Ministry has announced that an ex-guerrilla implicated in the alleged fake demobilization of a FARC front in 2006 is no longer the government’s “Manager of Peace.”…
Colombian Congress will study a bill proposing that scandal-ridden security and intelligence agency DAS be liquidated and replaced with a new body. Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras announced…
There are at present no active forest fires in Colombia, after blazes struck more than 400 Colombian municipalities so far in 2010, according to the Interior and Justice Ministry, reports…