Colombia commemorates 30 years without Luis Carlos Galan as questions remain
Questions remain 30 years after presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated by...
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Luis Carlos Galan
Luis Carlos Galan was a Colombian journalist and popular Liberal Party presidential candidate who...
Colombia’s ex-intelligence chief jailed over 1989 assassination of liberal presidential candidate
A former head of Colombia’s intelligence services was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in...
Son of suspect of one of Colombia’s most traumatic political murders assassinated
Armed men killed the son of the former director of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence...
Key witness in anti-Pablo Escobar presidential candidate murder trial arrested
Authorities on Monday captured a former official of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence...
Police commanders linked to Pablo Escobar’s assassination of Luis Carlos Galan
Colombia prosecutors have formally linked four former police commanders with slain drug lord Pablo...
Colombia’s former intelligence chief on trial over 1989 murder of presidential candidate
The former head of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency DAS will go on trial for allegedly...
Colombia marks 25th anniversary of Galan’s assasination
Luis Carlos Galan, a favored presidential candidate and outspoken enemy of Colombia’s drug...
Former intelligence director jailed innocent men for assassination of Luis Carlos Galan
One of Colombia’s high courts has ruled that former director of the DAS, Miguel Maza,...
US early release of extradited drug traffickers ‘insulting’: Colombian Senator
Colombian Senator Juan Manuel Galan on Tuesday called the United States’ practice of shortening sentences for extradited drug traffickers “ridiculous and insulting.” The Liberal senator from Bogota is calling for a...
Police major implicated in murder of presidential candidate surrenders
A retired police major accused of participating in the 1989 murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan surrendered on Monday to authorities. According to reports Luis Felipe Montilla Barbosa, the former police official...
Former security executives arrested for murder of presidential candidate
A former chief of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency DAS and a former police commander were arrested on Sunday in connection with the 1989 murder of the popular politician Luis Carlos Galan. Former intelligence...
