Generals implicated in journalist’s murder
Lawyers representing the family of Jaime Garzon have implicated top Colombian generals in the journalist and comedian’s murder in 1999 as they make their case to the Inter-American Commission on…
Lawyers representing the family of Jaime Garzon have implicated top Colombian generals in the journalist and comedian’s murder in 1999 as they make their case to the Inter-American Commission on…
A Colombian court orders the Catholic Church to pay $238,000 as compensation to the families of two victims of a pedophile priest, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The amount is…
The Catholic Church has been court-ordered to pay the family whose children were sexually abused by a priest more than $165,000 in compensation, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. The Criminal Division…
A Colombian advisory commission denounced a congressional referendum to impose life sentences on convicted child murderers and rapists as illegitimate “populism.” Colombian media reported that the commission, made up of…
Colombia’s ex-President Alvaro Uribe on Sunday visited his former chief of staff who is incarcerated while on trial for his alleged role in the illegal wiretapping of government opponents. The…
The former mayor of Cucuta has accused the Colombian senate president of having ties with paramilitary groups, newspaper El Tiempo reported Friday. Ex-mayor Ramiro Suarez told the newspaper that in…
Former director of Bogota’s Urban Development Institute (IDU) pleaded in front of the judge Friday that she be released because of the court’s lack of timely action in beginning her…
The president of Colombia’s Senate drafted a legislative act which intends to provide all members of Congress with political immunity and the right to appeal, reported newspaper El Espectador on…
Investigations into “Farcpolitics” – links between politicians and the guerrilla group FARC – are still going ahead despite important evidence being upheld as inadmissible by the Supreme Court, announced Colombia’s…