Colombian truckers began a strike Thursday to protest against government reforms of freight rates. Some 180,000 truckers reportedly parked their vehicle around midnight after weeks of negotiations between the government…
Family members of five miners who died in an explosion Tuesday say they will sue the state for neglecting to carry out security checks. According to the miners’ families, the…
Negotiations continued Tuesday between union workers and Cerrejon LLC, Colombia’s largest coal miner, in an effort to avoid a strike that could cripple coal exports. Igor Diaz, the president of…
Dan Kovalik, a prominent U.S. labor and human rights lawyer, lays out his reasons why Washington should not ratify a free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, and why he thinks…
Colombian authorities on Wednesday arrested a former army major who was supposedly held at an army base for the attempted murder on a leftist politician. Mayor Cesar Alonso Maldonado was…
U.S. Democratic Representative Sander Levin traveled to Colombia Wednesday for a “fact-finding mission” regarding a free trade agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and Colombia. The visit of Lewis (D-MI), an…
Colombia’s former vice present and current RCN Radio host Francisco Santos on Tuesday rejected the libel lawsuit filed against him by labor unions. A Bogota judge charged former Vice President…
The Colombian government admits that criminal groups that emerged from demobilized paramilitary organization AUC are threatening labor unionists and citizens helping the government to return land stolen by the AUC.…
Unionists suing ex-government officials for defamatory statements are demanding that the former vice president and a former presidential adviser appear in court, newspaper El Espectador reported on Tuesday. Neither former…