Bogota’s city government on Tuesday vowed it would guarantee the safe return of hundred of displaced people that have been stranded in the capital without food or shelter for weeks.…
Colombia’s palm oil sector has been among the main beneficiaries of the mass dispossession of land during the country’s armed conflict. Now their former federation chief is in charge of…
Colombia must punish those who teamed up with paramilitary death squads to steal land during the country’s armed conflict, according to the outgoing-director of the Land Restitution Unit. While the…
Businessmen in northwest Colombia are conspiring with death squads to assassinate social leaders to prevent the restitution of land that was stolen during the armed conflict, according to several organizations.…
At least eight policemen were killed in an alleged paramilitary attack on a judicial commission investigating land theft in northwest Colombia.
Estados Unidos, a township in the north of Colombia, once had 1,000 inhabitants. After three massacres and hundreds of homicides all but nine locals fled. Many survivors have still not…
Colombia’s armed conflict has displaced more than 7 million Colombians in what increasingly appears to have been a major land theft operation as only 16% of displaced victims were uprooted…
A Colombian court has ordered 19 companies, including the country’s largest bank, to return lands that were stolen in Colombia’s armed conflict and ended up in the hands of private businesses, reported news…
Colombia’s peace process with FARC rebels is partly stuck because approximately 15% of the country’s national territory was stolen during the armed conflict and many owners don’t want to give it back. Since Colombia’s…