Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has convened the commission seeking to cut ties between politicians, the private sector and death squads, a year after he was supposed to. Duque ended his…
The former security chief of Colombia’s Supreme Court was sentenced to seven years in prison for spying on the court at the orders of the government of former President Alvaro…
Colombia’s government on Thursday said that 2,202 former members of now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC were assassinated. Last year, this number was 3,656. The numbers were released while the government of…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has not once convened the commission in charge of reducing political violence in his country, according to the United Nations. This became clear on Friday when…
Para-economics is a phenomenon in Colombia in which businesses use death squads to either evade labor laws, increase their assets or maximize profits. The practice was particularly common in the 1990s and 2000s but…
A peasant leader and a victims representative were assassinated on Thursday, while two minority leaders received death threats from a far-right group. The killings Peasant leader Manuel Gregorio Gonzalez was…
Politicians, businessmen and state officials who want to evade prison for war crimes committed during Colombia’s armed conflict have three months to report themselves or lose the possibility for judicial…
Colombia’s prosecution on Wednesday said that it would seek criminal charges against more than 2,300 civilians and almost 3,300 state officials for their alleged ties to paramilitary groups. The bombshell…
Para-economics is a phenomenon in Colombia in which businesses use death squads to either evade labor laws, increase their assets or maximize profits. The practice was particularly common in the 1990s and 2000s but…