Colombia’s Constitutional Court ordered the country’s prison authority to speed up prison releases after the coronavirus infected 709 prisoners and guards in at least six prisons. The court ordered prison…
Two soldiers were killed, one was taken hostage and a major forest fire broke out in central Colombia after military efforts to try to evict communities living in a nature…
Colombia’s authorities are under extraordinary pressure to investigate who murdered the FARC member who was at the heart of the former guerrillas’ reintegration program. Alexander Parra, who was assassinated in…
Colombia’s army can’t seem to shake a decades-old habit of covering up extrajudicial executions by claiming having guerrillas killed in combat. On Wednesday, a press statement from a farmers’ association…
Locals from central Colombia said Wednesday that members of the army murdered a demobilized FARC member. The regional commander claimed it was in self defense. Local farmers’ association Semillas de…
Fourteen people were killed in a plane crash in central Colombia on Saturday, the country’s aviation authority said. According to the Special Administrative Unit of Aerocivil, the DC3 aircraft crashed…
Colombia’s ombudsman said Wednesday that he alerted authorities about pending violence in central Colombia four months before at least six people were killed in a massacre. Ombudsman Carlos Alfonso Negret…
Colombia’s government vows to invest $1.3 million (COP4.2 billion) in tourism infrastructure around the Caño Cristales, considered the world’s most beautiful river by some. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry Tourism…