Ex-paramilitaries get 30 years for massacre
Two former paramilitary members were sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1990 massacre of 43 people in Pueblo Bello, north Colombia, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported Wednesday. More…
Two former paramilitary members were sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1990 massacre of 43 people in Pueblo Bello, north Colombia, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported Wednesday. More…
Four people, reportedly from the indigenous Awa group, were massacred Thursday night in Colombia’s south-western Nariño department, El Espectador reported Friday. The motive of the murder is not yet known. The…
A play about the massacres of Trujillo, carried out by paramilitaries in collusion with the security forces, will open in Bogota in September. “The Duty of Fenster” (“El deber de…
Colombian Congressman Ivan Cepeda Tuesday presented a case against former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for slander to the International Criminial Court (ICC). The complaint regards comments made by Uribe in 2002 in which…
Ten Colombian soldiers have been acquitted of the 2005 murder of eight people, including three children, from the San Jose de Apartado peace community. The soldiers, of whom the highest…
The homicide rate in Colombia’s north-west department Cordoba continues to increase, with 307 murders reported between January and June this year. According to national police data presented in a study…
Police hope the arrest of a “Los Paisas” gang member linked to Sunday’s massacre, which killed six in Cordoba, Northern Colombia may result in further information about the tragedy. The…
Colombian investigators believe that the massacre of six people in the country’s north-west Cordoba department may be linked to a bloody turf war between rival drug trafficking gangs in the…
Authorities are investigating the massacre of six Colombians,including a minor, by machete in the town of Buenavista, in Colombia’s north-west violence-ridden department of Cordoba between Sunday night and Monday morning. A…