Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest port city on the Pacific coast, will always be subjected to mafia terror until “the state takes control for once,” according to the mayor. This would be…
Colombia’s police are responsible for 289 homicides committed for which only two policemen were convicted since 2017, according to a local human rights group. The Police Violence Observatory of NGO…
Colombia’s Defense Minister announced 400 extra police officers to improve security of the capital city’s public transport system, but that’s not even half the mayor believes he needs to guarantee…
The average Colombian is better off than the average world citizen, a recently published global prosperity index claimed.
Crime in Colombia’s 11 biggest cities has dropped 25% in the first week of a recently kicked off offensive against urban crime, President Juan Manuel Santos claimed on Saturday.
Tensions are on the rise in the northern Colombian city of Santa Marta following the assassination of the son of an indigenous governor and an alleged increase in criminal influence in local…
Robbery rates have nearly doubled in Colombia’s capital Bogota over the past few years while the city at the same time is failing to keep the homicide rate from going up.
The vast majority of human rights violations in Colombia last year were committed by paramilitaries and government forces, according to a conflict analysis NGO.
Cali saw a spectacular drop in homicides in the first half of 2014, the local ombudsman confirmed Tuesday. The drop is the first in six years.