Colombia’s new prosecutor general postponed the court hearing wherein former DAS director Maria del Pilar Hurtado and former President Alvaro Uribe’s chief of staff Bernardo Moreno will be charged for…
Colombia’s new Prosecutor General Viviane Morales rejects ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s criticism of the justice system in remarks made to Caracol Radio. Uribe admitted earlier Thursday that he had advised former…
One year and four months after its deadline to chose a new prosecutor general, Colombia’s Supreme Court elects Viviane Morales. The Supreme Court announced its decision just after midnight on…
Colombia’s Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez denied accusations from former President Alvaro Uribe that the Supreme Court pressured Ordoñez to rule against government officials, reports El Espectador. The ex-president said that the Supreme Court had…
Colombia’s State Council will examine whether it was legal for President Juan Manuel Santos to compose a new shortlist of candidates for the position of prosecutor general, replacing that drawn…
Colombian authorities arrested 23 members of the infamous narco-trafficking group “Los Rastrojos” in several municipalities in the departments of Cauca, Valle del Cauca, and Antioquia, reports El Espectador. The prosecutor…
Lawyer Marco Antonio Velilla, who was nominated by ex-President Alvaro Uribe as a candidate for prosecutor general, rejects President Juan Manuel Santos’ new list of nominees for the position, W…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday presented three new candidates for the office of prosecutor general to the Supreme Court. The candidates are former Defense Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra,…
A Colombian soldier is suspected of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl on October 2, in the Arauca department, close to the site where three children were killed earlier this month,…