The Colombian government reported that cases of land being stolen from peasants through falsification of titles or armed pressure have occurred throughout the country. The most visible cases of illegal stripping of land titles...
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has arrested the registrar for the San Martin municipality, located in the central department of Meta, for allegedly assisting a fallen neo-paramilitary boss in robbing...
An elderly man took 14 people hostage in the public notary office in the town of Giron, in the Santander department, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The 70-year-old man entered the office at approximately 8 AM on...
Colombia plans to reform the body that oversees the country’s notary and registry offices, due to findings that these organizations helped steal land from rural farmers. Minister of the Interior German Vargas Lleras...
