Colombia’s government ordered the bodyguards of demobilized FARC leaders to hand in all machine guns in the middle of the former guerrillas’ first local election campaign. The controversial order of…
FARC congressman “Jesus Santrich” has been out of sight from the authorities since Saturday after leaving a FARC reintegration site in northern Colombia without his bodyguards. In a press release,…
Colombia’s president Ivan Duque is reconsidering the nomination of a hard-right ally to run the agency in charge of protecting threatened social and opposition leaders. The conservative new president proposed…
Colombia’s National Protection Unit (UNP) has been infiltrated by organized crime and is spying on the people they are supposed to protect, according to local media. Among the ranks of…
Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday voted in favor of creating a maximum of 1200 new bodyguard positions for demobilized FARC rebels, reopening a decades-old debate. The National Protection Unit’s (UNP) proposal…
An electronic device given to some 400 threatened journalists and human rights defenders can be easily manipulated to record and even locate the protected persons, reported The Associated Press Monday. The GOS-enabled device…
Kidnappers on Saturday released the daughter of the director of the UNP, Colombia’s agency in charge of protecting threatened persons.
The director of Colombia’s National Protection Unit (UNP) announced that he will present more evidence of corruption in his organization.
The national entity charged with safeguarding Colombia’s threatened individuals needs a multi-million dollar boost in order to keep up current levels of protection, according to Colombia’s Minister of the Interior.