Colombia’s opposition announced criminal charges against nine army generals and an ideologue of President Ivan Duque’s far-right political party, which again found itself accused of having ties to the mafia.…
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…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal assumed the investigation into the role of the former security chief of former President Alvaro Uribe in the killing of human rights defenders. The Special Jurisdiction…
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe and his party have never won a presidential election without the admitted help of drug traffickers. Uribe’s Democratic Center party is currently in trouble for…
Calls for President Ivan Duque to resign grew louder on Friday as Colombia was bombarded with evidence of the close ties between his party, the security forces and the mafia.…
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…
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…
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…