Colombia’s human rights and community leaders continue to be the target of assassination attempts and death threats in an apparent surge in paramilitary violence. On Monday, indigenous governor Humberto Chiran from the southwestern Nariño…
After two weeks of intense demonstrations up much of the coastline, strikers in southwestern Colombia officially suspended all protest activities Friday in light of pending negotiations with government officials, Colombia…
A religious social organization has condemned the multiple killings of members of a leftist political movement, local media reported on Thursday.
Representatives of the mass protests groups that on Monday paralysed the Colombian capital released a “final declaration,” calling on the government to act on rural issues before the May deadline.
Colombia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Monday that additional security measures have been implemented to protect opposition politicians, in light of the death threats issued against leaders of social movements…
Colombia’s second largest criminal organization has released a pamphlet calling for the assassination of presidential and congressional candidates of Colombian left-wing political parties, the Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica – UP)…
Patriotic March (Marcha Patriotica) founder and former Senator Piedad Cordoba took to Colombian media outlets Monday to denounce the latest in a series of political assassinations targeting members of her…
The Metropolitan Police is investigating an alleged politically motivated attack by police forces on a member of Colombia’s leftist Union Patriotica political party in the early hours of Monday morning.
Colombia’s FARC rebel group denounced the assassinations of 29 members of the left-wing Marcha Patriotica party that occurred during 2013, calling on the government to increase security measures for the…