Leftist Colombian senators and Bogota mayor receive death threat
The mayor of Bogota and some of Colombia’s most prominent leftist opposition senators said they have received death threats from a neo-paramilitary group.
The mayor of Bogota and some of Colombia’s most prominent leftist opposition senators said they have received death threats from a neo-paramilitary group.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, has released a mayor they said to have kidnapped in December to respond to corruption charges.
A journalist from southern Colombia who had said he wanted to run for mayor on Friday was assassinated on Saturday.
The Bogota office of Citizens Option, a controversial Colombian political party, was the target of a grenade attack on Tuesday.
Colombians’ life expectancy has been reduced by at least two years as a result of the country’s armed conflict and violence related to drug trafficking, said the National Health Observatory (ONS)…
Colombia’s oil workers union said Tuesday that just this month two of its leaders have been attacked while another 11 received death threats.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has launched an initiative that seeks to prioritize pending investigations of more than 3,000 crimes committed against human rights defenders since 2006.
The Colombian government needs to do more to protect human rights workers who have been threatened by right-wing death squads, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
President Juan Manuel Santos has claimed he did not make “any specific proposal” that drug-trafficking be treated as a political crime, following fierce criticism of his comments that “flexibility” be…