Medicina Legal, Colombia’s national forensics agency, has admitted possible weaknesses in its expert evidence due. The newly appointed director of Medicina Legal, Carlos Eduardo Valdes Moreno, has committed to strengthening…
The southwest of Colombia continued to have the country’s highest homicide rate in 2010, according to a report released by the national coroner’s office. The government body, which is in…
The murder rate per capita in Colombian capital Bogota fell 0.9% in the first seven months of 2010 compared to the same period last year, though the total number of…
A Colombian army raid on a FARC camp in the northern department of Bolivar left four members of the guerrilla group dead, of whom one is thought to be prominent leader…
Bogota’s homicide rate was up 5.4% in the first two months of this year, compared to the same period in 2009, according to data released by Colombia’s national forensics agency,…