Colombia’s Minister of Defense said Monday that intelligence officials had intercepted ELN communications discussing their perpetration of the attempted assassination of a leftwing presidential candidate on Sunday.
Sunday’s assassination attempt on Aida Avella has been condemned by various sectors of the political community.
Aida Avella, the presidential candidate of socialist party Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica – UP), survived an assassination attempt while on campaign in the northeast of the country on Sunday.
Aida Avella, leftist presidential candidate for the newly revived Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica-UP) political party, has returned to Colombia after nearly two decades of exile to run for Colombia’s highest…
Colombia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Monday that additional security measures have been implemented to protect opposition politicians, in light of the death threats issued against leaders of social movements…
Colombia’s second largest criminal organization has released a pamphlet calling for the assassination of presidential and congressional candidates of Colombian left-wing political parties, the Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica – UP)…
The Metropolitan Police is investigating an alleged politically motivated attack by police forces on a member of Colombia’s leftist Union Patriotica political party in the early hours of Monday morning.
The Patriotic Union (UP) is a leftist political party from Colombia that was virtually exterminated by paramilitary groups and state forces in the 1980s and 1990s. Tweets by UP_Colombia The party…
The Patriotic Union (UP), a Colombian communist party that saw thousands of members assassinated after its formation in the 1980s, on Saturday elected its candidate for the 2014 presidential election.