Displaced leader assassinated in Medellin
The leader of a group of people displaced by violence, who was campaigning for land restitution, is murdered in a busy shopping mall in the south of Medellin, Caracol reported…
The leader of a group of people displaced by violence, who was campaigning for land restitution, is murdered in a busy shopping mall in the south of Medellin, Caracol reported…
Hours after the government concluded the land restitution of some 63,000 acres to Afro-Colombian communities in the Choco department, illegal armed groups raided and burned several acres of crops, Caracol…
The government reclaims land in the Magdalena department that was inadvertently handed over to connections of paramilitary Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias “Jorge 40,” El Espectador reported Wednesday. Jorge 40’s men originally…
The AIS agricultural subsidy program, which was at the center of a corruption scandal last year, will restart in January 2011, Colombia’s Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo said Tuesday. Restrepo claims that…
Colombia’s Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo said Tuesday that days before the end of his term, the administration of former President Alvaro Uribe ordered the transfer of $27 million (COP50…
The Colombian government Tuesday presented a bill, coined the Land Restitution Law, before Congress that seeks to return land to farmers displaced by the Andean nation’s internal conflict. Colombian Minister…