Colombia’s intelligence agency assassinated presidential candidate: prosecution
Three agents of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency DAS carried out the assassination...
Tag: Patriotic Union
Colombia sentenced for exterminating political party
Colombia’s State is responsible for the extermination of the leftist Patriotic Union (UP)...
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal: 5,700 killed in political extermination
Attempts to exterminate Colombia’s Patriotic Union (UP) party cost the lives of more than...
Colombia’s late president ordered extermination of leftist party: report
Colombia’s late president Virgilio Barco personally approved the extermination of thousands...
Offices of leftist parties attacked in Bogota
The offices of leftist parties were attacked in Bogota on Friday, two weeks before...
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal opens case on extermination of leftist party
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal on Monday opened a case to investigate the virtual...
Colombia’s state convicted for political ‘extermination’ of communists
Colombia’s government and military forces will have to pay a fine after being convicted for...
Did the AGC threaten the leftist Patriotic Union?
The leader of of leftist political party Patriotic Union (UP) on Thursday claimed she had been...
Colombia state bodyguards suspects in 1990 presidential candidate assassination plot
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating 15 former state security...
Santos admits Colombia state role in 1980s killings of leftist politicians
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday acknowledged the state’s responsibility...
Colombia’s left fears political extermination following 29 murders in 2 weeks
Twenty-nine members of Colombia’s political left have been killed in the last two weeks. The...
UP marches to remember victims of ‘political genocide’
The leftist Colombian political party Patriotic Union (UP) marched on Thursday to honor the thousands of victims killed over the years from their movement in what has been called a “political genocide.” PROFILE:...
