Colombia’s Supreme Court warned that paying reparations to victims of the country’s armed conflict could do serious damage to state budgets. Supreme Court President Jaime Arrubla told newspaper El Espectador…
Cesar Mauricio Velasquez, Colombia’s new ambassador to the Vatican, will fly back to Bogota to testify about his alleged role in the illegal investigation of Supreme Court magistrates by state…
Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez rejects Senator Piedad Cordoba’s legal challenge that he should not judge her appeal against her dismissal for allegedly collaborating with the FARC. Ordoñez said there are…
Colombia’s inspector general said that the extrajudicial killing of civilians by the country’s armed forces was caused by pressure to please the armed forces’ high command and the government, newspaper…
The Bogota Superior Tribunal on Wednesday approved an arrangement between prosecutors and a former DAS executive, confirming the former intelligence chief’s eight-year jail sentence for his role in the illegal…
A man was arrested in Bogota after 12 years on the run for beating and biting a 2-year-old girl to death in 1998. Carlos Julio Giraldo Figueredo was arrested Wednesday…
A Colombian judge sentenced former Liberal Party congressman Jairo Alberto Llano Gomez to seven years and six months in jail for ties to demobilized paramilitary organization AUC. The judge, based…
The Americas director of NGO Human Rights Watch said Tuesday he is “concerned” about the 15-month delay in Colombia’s election of a new prosecutor general. Regional director Jose Miguel Vivanco…
A former presidential press secretary and a former director of state intelligence agency DAS were called for questioning over the illegal wiretapping of Supreme Court judges, journalists, politicians and human rights…