Colombia’s prosecutor general declared the 1990 assassination of demobilized M-19 guerrilla and presidential candidate, Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, a “crime against humanity”, reports Radio Sante Fe. The former M-19 commander’s murder was part of…
In Washington, family members of eleven victims of the 1985 Palace of Justice siege asked the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to accept a report…
Socialist Gustavo Petro is allowed to run for president, despite his past as a guerrilla and the fact he served time in prison, Colombian electoral authorities ruled. The National Election…
Family of a magistrate who died in the 1985 Palace of Justice Siege announced on Wednesday their intention to accuse Colombia’s former President Belisario Betancourt as responsible for the magistrate’s…
A Colombian commission of jurists Thursday urged the Colombian State to admit the use of excessive force in the 1985 siege of the Palace of Justice that had been occupied…
The defense lawyer for families of missing victims from the 1985 Palace of Justice siege will ask the Inter-American Human Rights Commission to validate a U.S. document which allegedly exposes…
U.S intelligence agents in Colombia produced a report which signals ex Colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega as the mastermind behind the disappearances and killings of civilians rescued during the 1985 Palace…