The Nariño province in southwest Colombia suffered its third massacre in a month, the province’s top security official said Saturday. According to Nariño’s Government Secretary Francisco Ceron, four people were…
Eight people, including one minor, were killed in a massacre in Colombia’s most southwestern province on Saturday, the governor said. In a tweet, Nariño governor Jhon Rojas said that an…
With Colombia on lockdown over the coronavirus, killing the country’s human rights defenders and community leaders has never been easier. Fearing that quarantine measures in place to contain the spread…
Human Rights Watch decried police abuse in attempts to quell largely peaceful protests in Colombia last year and a lack of efforts to hold these cops accountable. The HRW report…
Colombia’s security forces on Sunday pretended everything was under control while ELN guerrillas carried out one of their most successful military offensives in years. Dozens of military officials appeared on…
Regions controlled by Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group ELN are in terror as the rebels imposed a 72-hour shutdown, causing civilian authorities to collapse. While public life in the cities continued…
Homicides in Colombia went up 3% in 2019, according to the country’s Medical Examiner’s Office, which is contradicting government claims homicides dropped. The Medical Examiner’s Office, whose numbers are used…
“The war has returned!” a journalist from southern Colombia decried after the 13th assassination this year in Puerto Guzman, a locality with less than 5,000 inhabitants. This war over Putumayo…
The ELN violently reaffirmed their control over Colombia’s northeastern Arauca province on Saturday, days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed “the guerrillas were the police’ there. In one of multiple…