The systematic criminalization of Colombia’s youth | 2000 – 2018
Colombia’s prosecution arrested some 10,000 students on bogus terrorism or rebellion charges...
Tag: students
Bus containing 50 students crashes in central Colombia, 2 killed
In Colombia’s central Boyaca Department, a school bus containing fifty students crashed into...
Congress will reform education with or without government support
Higher education will reform with or without the government’s support, said Colombia’s Congress according to newspaper El Espectador on Tuesday. Senate President Roy Barreras Montealegre held ongoing meetings with...
Alleged FARC student recruiter captured in Cali, Colombia
Police captured a man suspected of recruiting university students for Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, said local media Wednesday. 26-year-old Julian Andres Hoyas Tellez, alias “Mechas,” was...
Guerrillas are infiltrating Colombian universities: Bogota official
Bogota’s Government Secretary Antonio Navarro Wolff said guerrilla groups are infiltrating Colombian universities, according to local media reports Monday. Navarro’s comments come after the death of a student in the...
3 Colombian students die in homemade bomb explosion
Three Colombian university students have died in a bomb making accident, reported local media Sunday. Oscar Arcos, Daniel Andres Garzon, and another person identified as Zaida died in an explosion in a Bogota apartment Sunday....
Student dies after riots in central Colombia
A student has died from wounds inflicted by handmade explosives at university riots in the central Colombian city of Tunja. The 24 year-old sustained injuries to his face, abdomen, hips and lost body parts following the the...
4 students mutilated in Colombian university riots
Seven students were injured and four mutilated Tuesday in riots at a university in the central Colombian city of Tunja. The injured age between 19 and 28 years old. Doctors at a local hospital described the injuries as a...
Colombian universities draft education reform bill
Colombian university leaders have provided details of their proposed new education reform plan, reported local media Monday. After a meeting at the Medellin branch of Colombia’s National University, the country’s...
1 killed in Cali, skirmishes in Bogota as student protests turn violent
One protester was killed in Cali while riot police clashed with protesters in Bogota on Wednesday in the latest protests against higher education reforms. According to media reports, the Cali medical student died when he fell in...
Free bicycle access for Medellin students
Medellin adopted a new initiative on Friday that gives students free access to bicycles. Deputy Director of the city’s Mobility Office Martha Suarez said the purpose of this initiative is so “the community overcomes...
Hidden cameras incite riot on Medellin campus
Students of Medellin’s University of Antioquia tore down hidden surveillance devices allegedly installed by Colombia’s Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squadron (ESMAD), university students reported Friday. According to a...
