A Bogota court ordered Colombia’s government to fulfill its obligation to protect human rights defenders and community leaders as agreed in a peace deal with former FARC rebels in 2016.…
Colombia’s government on Thursday could not deny that “the guerrillas are the police” in the northeastern Arauca province as claimed by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Instead, the Defense Ministry sent…
One of Colombia’s top organized crime prosecutors was not assassinated, but murdered in a botched robbery, the prosecution said Wednesday. The killing of the Cali chief of prosecutor Alcibiades Libreros…
Homicides in Colombia went up 2.34% between January and November 2019 compared to the same period the year before, according to the country’s medical examiner’s office. In its monthly report,…
The alleged Medellin mafia boss accused by Mayor Federico Gutierrez of trying to kill him was released on Wednesday, a day after authorities announced the “major blow against organized crime”…
President Ivan Duque traveled to southwest Colombia on Monday for his second security council in a week over the ongoing mass killing of native Colombians, who were not invited. Duque…
Two days after alleged FARC dissidents massacred an indigenous governor and four guards, authorities in Corinto, a town in southwest Colombia, reported a second massacre. The indigenous community of the…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Wednesday ordered the military to send 2,500 soldiers to southwest Colombia where alleged FARC dissidents massacred an indigenous governor and four indigenous guards. Following a…
President Ivan Duque traveled to southwest Colombia on Wednesday to attend what indigenous authorities call a genocide. Following the latest massacre in which an indigenous governor and four guards were…