Pablo Escobar never made Medellin the world’s most dangerous city. Local authorities and media who turned a public relations campaign into a terrorism campaign did, according to multiple studies. There…
Seventy-two human rights defenders have been assassinated in Colombia since 2015 in disputes with companies, primarily multinationals, according to a corporate responsibility NGO. The businesses implicated in most cases of…
Members of Colombia’s Congress are implicated in violence against human rights defenders, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders said Monday. In an interview with…
Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam, HidroItuango, has made international headlines — and for all the wrong reasons. From its inception, the $4.5 billion-dollar dam built near Ituango, Antioquia, on the Cauca…
Medellin’s elite and friends of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe were among the main beneficiaries of the dispossession of more than 3 million hectares of land, an area the size…
Despite the terror sown by paramilitaries, Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has ignored recommendations to dismantle these groups, newspaper El Espectador reported Thursday. According to the daily, Duque was given a…
The military’s collusion with what the United States considers Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization is undermining the government’s legitimacy, President Ivan Duque was told on Wednesday. Victims representative Leyner Palacios…
Salvatore Mancuso, the former paramilitary leader who led the demobilization of paramilitary group AUC, will not have to go to prison if he returns to Colombia in March next year.…
Legendary former paramilitary chief Ivan Roberto Duque died on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack in Medellin. Duque, who was a top-ranking political chief of now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC, was…