Bogota’s public television network, Canal Capital, on Thursday called on authorities to investigate “constant” cyber attacks targeting the network’s website and threats delivered to its executives.
Several politicians and human rights lawyers said Tuesday that they have received death threats from paramilitary group the Black Eagles (Aguilas Negras).
Colombia’s government on Wednesday unveiled a plan to invest $2.6 million in order to provide security for political candidates in congressional and presidential elections held in March and May respectively.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating declarations implicating imprisoned army general Rito Alejo del Rio in the 1995 assassination of conservative presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez.
In the wake of the 2014 elections, Colombia has begun implementing enhanced security measures to protect the most at-risk candidates.
Liberal “Green Alliance” councilman Donaldo Sanchez Lizarazo was assassinated Thursday in the eastern state of Arauca marking the 10th councilman assassination in Colombia this year.
A former mayor of Colombia’s central city of Villavicencio was arrested Wednesday for ordering the assassination of his predecessor.
Colombia prosecutors on Tuesday detained the country’s former intelligence chief Tuesday in connection with the 1989 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.
The army general in charge of operations against the FARC’s Teofilo Foreo Mobile column on Thursday claimed the alleged confiscation of a list of prominent Colombians the guerrillas plan to…