Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday called on President Alvaro Uribe to pass the “Law of Forced Disappearance,” which sets out new provisions on registering and searching for people who have…
Extradited FARC leader Ricardo Palmera, alias “Simon Trinidad,” appeared before Colombian authorities via webcam from his U.S. prison on Monday to provide testimony on a 2002 FARC attack, according to a…
Mario Uribe, the ex-president of the Colombian Congress who was arrested last month for parapolitics, was rushed out of prison and to the hospital Monday morning, after exhibiting symptoms of…
Colombian authorities on Wednesday arrested another top commander of the drug-running neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños”. The alleged paramilitary leader, Ovidio de Jesus Cardona Borja, was apprehended by Colombian national police…
In Washington, family members of eleven victims of the 1985 Palace of Justice siege asked the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to accept a report…
After a two year-long investigation, Colombia’s intelligence service DAS and the navy have busted an international group smuggling arms from Central America to gangs in Colombia, according to a DAS…
The head of the Colombian Supreme Court, Jaime Arrubla, announced on Thursday that one of its judges has received a threatening email signed by prisoners of Combita, a jail in…
Following six months of intelligence work searching for the wanted FARC guerilla, the Colombian National Police announced on Tuesday that they have captured “Mocho Jordan”, the head of the guerilla…
Colombia’s Supreme Court of Justice said Tuesday it has passed the case against former army General Rito Alejo del Rio, suspected of collaborating with paramilitary death squads, to a specialist…