Twenty-four years after the killing of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, prosecutors’ crosshairs are now on the former director of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency for his possible involvement in the…
Some 4,700 city council members in Colombia are threatened. More than half of them lack effective protection, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Federation of Council…
A trial for the 1999 murder one of Colombia’s best-known public figures, journalist and television personality Jaime Garzon, began this week in Bogota.
Colombian congressman Wilson Arias has received personal death threats by people who believe that the congressman has harmed the agricultural industry by denouncing politicians’ role in land theft scandals, he…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General revealed on Tuesday that the assassinations of three politicians from 1989 – 1990 were state crimes.
Thirty-seven human rights defenders were killed in Colombia between January and June of 2013, making it the most violent six-month period on record for humanitarian workers in the country, according…
Colombia’s national government announced to increase security for leftist congressmen, political activists and unionists after drug cartel “Los Rastrojos” announced them a “military target.”
A local politician has been assassinated in the southwest of Colombia, local media reported Monday.
Colombia’s State Council on Tuesday allowed the Patriotic Union (UP), a communist party that saw thousands of its members assassinated, to take part in next year’s elections.