Murder rate soars in Cordoba department
The homicide rate in Colombia’s north-west department Cordoba continues to increase, with 307 murders reported between January and June this year. According to national police data presented in a study…
The homicide rate in Colombia’s north-west department Cordoba continues to increase, with 307 murders reported between January and June this year. According to national police data presented in a study…
In a report presented by Doctors without Borders in Madrid on Tuesday, the international NGO called for state mental health services to be adapted to meet the needs of Colombians internally…
A new study by Bogota’s Manuela Beltran University shows that 20 per cent of Colombia paramilitaries and guerrillas who have laid down their arms are at risk of returning to…
Roy Chaderton, Venezuela’s ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) stated Friday that his country’s territory has been repeatedly violated by illegal Colombian groups crossing the border, and insisted…
The Week of Truth, a three day event dedicated to remembering paramilitary violence in the northern Colombian departments Sucre and Bolivar, will start on July 21 in Sincelejo, a town…
The Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office on Monday asked the nation’s Institute for Rural Development to seize and redistribute 36 properties linked to paramilitary commander Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias “Jorge 40.” The…
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Philip Alston revealed Thursday that 30 corpses bearing torture marks have been found on the border of Colombia and Ecuador. According to the UN official,…
Demobilized paramilitary commander Uber Banquez, alias “Juancho Dique”, testified before Colombia’s Supreme Court Tuesday that he had met the current Senate President Javier Carceles to offer him a role in…
Colombia’s prosecutor general is considering suspending the exhumation of the bodies of victims of paramilitary violence, due to concerns for the safety of officials working in the field, El Espectador…