Former Vice President Francisco Santos and former presidential adviser Jose Obdulio Gaviria are being sued by three trade unions over defamatory statements linking the unions to terrorism. The case, to…
The brother of Colombian former Inspector General Edgardo Maya was arrested for his alleged responsibility for the murder of two unionists working for multinational coal company Drummond. According to the…
The Colombian government on Friday promised to improve relations with the country’s trade unions and strengthen efforts to fight impunity for killers of unionists and human rights activists. Following a…
Two score and seven years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On August 28, the 47th…
Coal workers in Colombia at the La Jagua mine of Glencore’s Prodeco unit have reached a two-year compensation deal with the company after a five-week walkout, union officials said on…
Two officials from Colombian security agency DAS were apprehended on Saturday for the murder of a union leader in 2005. The two agents turned themselves in to authorities in the city…
Glencore’s Prodeco Group said on Friday it regretted a decision by a Colombian labor union to strike at its La Jagua coal mine and called for more talks with workers…
Workers at BP PLC operations in Colombia are striking and blocking the entrance of a natural-gas processing plant at the Cusiana field, located in the eastern Casanare department, union and…
The human rights situation in Colombia is improving or it isn’t. There may be many ways to skin a cat, but the answer to this question is limited to the…