From heroes to pariahs: Colombia’s medical personnel discriminated over coronavirus paranoia
Doctors and nurses throughout Colombia are reporting discrimination as general fear over the...
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Government and native Colombians reach compromise: Pan-American Highway reopened
Native Colombians from the southwest reached a compromise with the government; President Ivan...
UN and OAS urge government and native Colombians to avoid further violence
The human rights bodies of the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS)...
One killed, six injured in Cali university riot over dead student
Clashes between police and students in Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, left one...
Native Colombians and black rights leaders fear more violent repression as protest grows
Colombia’s national indigenous organization sent out an alert for possible violent police...
Colombia’s new defense chief wants to limit right to protest
Colombia’s new government will allow public protest only if this is approved by the...
Forced coca eradication causing violent clashes throughout Colombia
Colombia’s security forces have had at least twenty-one major clashes with coca farmers in...
Colombia militarizes largest port city after 3 weeks of strikes and extreme police brutality
After almost three weeks of social unrest and extreme state violence in Colombia’s largest...
Protesters in Colombia’s main port city demand national fund to end blockade
Protesters on Tuesday called for the Colombian government to create an exclusive fund to...
West Colombia uprising: Bogota cedes to Choco demands while violence in Buenaventura escalates
While Colombia’s western province of Choco agreed to end 11 days of anti-government...
Fed up with state neglect, Buenaventura shuts down Colombia’s largest port, hitting Bogota where it hurts
After more than a week of protests, the people of Buenaventura on Wednesday took to blocking the...
Labor unions ‘take’ Colombia’s capital cities in 2nd mass protest within a week
Hundreds of thousands of Colombia’s state employees laid down work and took to the streets...
