Attacks, threats continue against Colombia rights leaders
Colombia’s human rights and community leaders continue to be the target of assassination...
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Southwest Colombia returns to calm as protesters, govt prepare for ‘historic’ talks
After two weeks of intense demonstrations up much of the coastline, strikers in southwestern...
48 members of leftist movement murdered in 2 years: Report
A religious social organization has condemned the multiple killings of members of a leftist...
Santos has until May to meet demands: Colombian farmers
Representatives of the mass protests groups that on Monday paralysed the Colombian capital...
Security measures in place after death threats to left-wing politicians
Colombia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Monday that additional security measures have...
Colombian criminal gang calls for assassination of left-wing political leaders
Colombia’s second largest criminal organization has released a pamphlet calling for the...
30th killing of left-wing political party member since 2013
Patriotic March (Marcha Patriotica) founder and former Senator Piedad Cordoba took to Colombian...
Left-wing political party member ‘tortured’ by Bogota police
The Metropolitan Police is investigating an alleged politically motivated attack by police forces...
FARC sees assassination of 29 left-wing political party members as threat to peace process
Colombia’s FARC rebel group denounced the assassinations of 29 members of the left-wing...
Leftist political party contemplates dissolving with almost 30 members assassinated in 2013
The leftist Marcha Patriotica political party might disband, according to ex-Senator and party...
Cepeda proposes Colombia’s left unite in anticipation of FARC peace deal
Colombian congressman Ivan Cepeda on Wednesday called upon other leftist leaders to consolidate a...
A march for politics, not for peace
It was a hard decision to make but I chose not to march yesterday. I decided instead to reflect on the death of the people´s president that never was, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, and pray for the victims of Colombia´s conflict. The...
