The comptroller of the oil-rich city of Barrancabermeja was arrested Monday on suspicion he had tried extorting the city’s mayor. The local anti-extortion and kidnapping unit of the police arrested…
Authorities on Tuesday discovered and deactivated six bombs charged with 210kg of explosives believed to have been installed by FARC guerrillas in Huila. The explosives, thought to be of an…
Colombian armed forces on Sunday arrested sixteen suspected FARC rebels in the east of the country. According to the army, the suspected rebels were arrested in the Arauca department with…
Colombia’s Interior and Justice Minister claims that he was not investigated for “FARC-politics” because President Alvaro Uribe authorized his negotiation with the guerrillas. Minister Fabio Valencia Cossio answered questions posed…
Members of the armed forces were responsible for 71% of the 69 cases of sexual assault registered in Colombia in 2008, revealed a study on Wednesday. A report regarding socio-political…
The UN expressed concerns Wednesday about threats made against Colombian judicial officials and warned that some were coming from the government and police. Following a 10-day visit to Colombia, the…
David Murcia Guzman, the disgraced founder and head of the DMG corporation, was sentenced Wednesday by a Colombian court to 30 years and eight months in prison. This decision comes…
An ex-police colonel on Wednesday denied he was responsible for torturing his wife to death. Former colonel Jose Joaquin Aldana, who turned himself into authorities Tuesday, declared himself innocent of…
Overcrowding in Colombian prisons has doubled in the last two years with the average prison in 2009 exceeding its capacity by some 37 percent, claimed the Comptroller General Wednesday. The…