Court rejects bullfighting ban
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ruled against the prohibition of bull and cockfighting. Animal rights activists asked the court to prohibit the spectacle on the grounds of its cruelty. The…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ruled against the prohibition of bull and cockfighting. Animal rights activists asked the court to prohibit the spectacle on the grounds of its cruelty. The…
Former congresswoman Yidis Medina on Monday denied former Minister Sabas Pretelt de la Vega’s claim that he did not attempt to bribe her to secure the re-election of then-President Alvaro…
Former Interior Minister Sabas Pretelt de la Vega fruitlessly tried to block a criminal investigation against him over the alleged bribery of congressmen to secure the 2006 re-election of then-President…
Private military firm Blackwater violated U.S. arms trafficking regulations when training the Colombian military in 2005, a leaked State Department report shows. The controversial firm, renamed Xe Services LLC in…
The government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos presented a bill proposing a set of judicial reforms which aim to make the country’s justice system faster moving and more efficient.…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Thursday failed to elect a new national prosecutor general for the eighteenth time in a year, because they could not reach a sufficient consensus on a candidate.…
Colombia’s Senate asks Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to speak out on the legal proceedings against Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for the 2008 cross-border attack that killed FARC commander “Raul Reyes.”…
An extradited commander of Colombian guerrilla group FARC, Juan Jose “Chiguiro” Martinez Vega, was sentenced to 27.5 years in jail by a New York court for drugs and arms trafficking, Venezuelan…
The United States has implemented measures to allow Colombian prosecutors easier access to extradited leaders of paramilitary organization AUC, says Colombia’s prosecutor general. In an interview with newspaper El Espectador,…