The acting president of Colombia’s Supreme Court, Jaime Arrubla, called for international intervention on Thursday, following continued interference with the court by the government of President Alvaro Uribe, reports Caracol…
Colombia saw widespread protests on Wednesday against President Alvaro Uribe’s recent criticisms of decisions made by the Supreme Court, reported Colombian media. The protests, which were organized by Colombia’s National…
The Supreme Court cancelled a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, scheduled to discuss Colombia’s extradition treaty with the U.S., because it feels the head of state is undermining the…
A Colombian Supreme Court magistrate told RCN Radio Monday that Judge Jenny Jimenez received threatening phone calls after President Alvaro Uribe criticized her decision to arrest Mario Aranguren, former director of the…
Colombia’s interior minister, Fabio Valencia Cossio, on Friday proposed a bill to split the Interior and Justice Ministry into two separate bodies, reports El Espectador. Cossio presented the plan to…
The Colombian government on Thursday released a statement denying that perpetrators of extrajudicial killings known as “false positives” enjoy near-total impunity from justice, saying that the accusation “does not correspond…
Colombia’s Supreme Court postponed the election of a new national prosecutor general for an eleventh time, after the judicial body failed to reach a consensus on which candidate should fill…
The president of Colombia’s Supreme Court, Jaime Arrubla, said Wednesday that the Prosecutor General’s revelations of DAS infiltration, spying and wire tapping of the judicial body amount to a “State conspiracy”…
Colombian media outlet El Tiempo asked Colombia’s presidential candidates if they would cut a deal with drug traffickers, granting the criminals a block on their extradition to the U.S., in…