Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe and his main rival in the Senate, Gustavo Petro, clashed on Monday over their alleged ties to late drug lord Pablo Escobar. The clash erupted…
At least 18 bodies were found in three mass graves in a rural, war-stricken area in southwestern Colombia. The remains are thought to be of victims of a guerrilla massacre that took…
A recent deal between Colombia’s government and FARC rebels about the guerrillas’ future participation in politics “is changing the history” of the country’s half-a-century armed conflict, said Antonio Navarro, a…
The U.S. State Department has honored prominent Colombian lawyer Jorge Molano with a special mention at the annual “Human Rights Defender” awards. According to a press release from the website…
Retired army colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega, who on June 9 had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the disappearance of eleven civilians in 1985, is still not…
The former intelligence chief of the DAS, Alberto Romero, claimed Thursday that drug traffickers are trying to frame him for the 1990 murder of presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro. Earlier that…
A Bogota court Monday closed all investigations into the M-19 guerrillas who participated in the 1985 Palace of Justice siege. The decision refers to those M-19 guerrillas who disappeared either…
Colombian federal prosecutors accuse the defense of retired Colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega of falsifying evidence in the case over the colonel’s alleged role in the disappearance of civilians in the…