Ex-senator Piedad Cordoba is demanding a criminal investigation of Colombia’s Defense Minister and Inspector General for accusing the ex-senator of inciting violence, reported local media Tuesday. Cordoba’s attorney, Luis Guillermo…
Colombia’s inspector general may prosecute ex-senator Piedad Cordoba who called for the government’s overthrow, local media reported Monday. In a speech to the Nasa tribe, the group disputing the military’s presence…
Colombia’s inspector general requested ex-senator Piedad Cordoba be investigated for urging an indigenous group in southwestern Colombia to rebel against the government. The Prosecutor General’s Office will investigate Cordoba for…
An ex-Colombian senator called on indigenous groups Wednesday in Cauca to challenge the military and possibly initiate a coup against the president, reported local media. Speaking passionately with Nasa tribe community…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accused Venezuelan head of state Hugo Chavez of trying to procure surface-to-air missiles for the FARC on Sunday. During a two-day tour of the Colombia-Venezuela border region,…
President Juan Manuel Santos and his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, resumed their long-standing public feud Tuesday with a series of scathing statements. After a government-sanctioned study indicated Thursday that 34% of…
A witness confirmed there was a plot to assassinate high-profile ex-senator Piedad Cordoba and the Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro earlier in 2012, reported Colombian newspaper La Opinion Sunday. The two…
Colombian authorities revealed Wednesday a pamphlet from a group calling itself the “Anti-Restitution Army” had issued death threats to 13 human rights supporters in the country. The obscenity-laden document called…
More than 1,500 people marched Thursday in solidarity with local protests against the new “Tres Cruces” army base in the southwestern Cauca department, reported news agency Prensa Rural and others.…