The Office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) confirmed Tuesday in Bogota that a graveyard located in La Macarena, in Colombia’s south-east Meta department contains at least 446…
A total of 217 guerrillas demobilized in August according to the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), El Espectador reports. The central Colombian department of Cundinamarca registered 34…
Colombian civil aviation authorities announced that at least two people have died in a plane crash in Aguazul, in the country’s south-east Casanare department. The HK-4429 registration twin engine aircraft reportedly crashed while…
Colombian human rights defender Norma Irene Perez, who was involved in investigating allegations of a mass grave in La Macarena, was found shot to death, according to a Bogota-based NGO. The Permanent…
A youth soccer coach was shot and killed on Sunday after a match about 50 miles southeast of Bogota. Caracol radio identified the coach as Alvaro Poveda, but authorities have…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe claimed that the “mouthpieces of terrorism” are attempting to discredit the country’s security forces, following allegations made by opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba and a group of…
The Colombian government denies reports of a mass grave found in the south-east department of Meta, claiming that the allegation is a strategy to derail the Andean nation’s free trade…
Authorities warn of the risk of mass forced displacement in Colombia’s Meta department, following an announcement by the FARC that they will enforce an “armed strike” in the area. According…
Two police officers were killed in a FARC guerrilla attack in central Colombia, authorities announced Sunday. The two security officials were shot dead by snipers on patrol in the central…