48 members of leftist movement murdered in 2 years: Report
A religious social organization has condemned the multiple killings of members of a leftist...
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Money, not votes, opens doors to Colombia’s Congress: Aida Avella
Elections in Colombia are won with checkbooks, not policies, according to Aida Avella, the Patriotic Union’s (Union Patriotica — UP) candidate for president. In an interview with Colombia Reports, Avella explained...
ELN condemns assassination attempt on Colombia presidential candidate
Colombia’s ELN rebel group condemned Sunday’s failed assassination attempt on left-wing presidential candidate Aida Avella, in a statement released Tuesday. Despite Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos...
Presidential candidate Aida Avella turns heads at Colombia’s 1st election debate
Leftist candidate Aida Avella “stole the show” Thursday at the first presidential debate ahead of...
Aida Avella: Former exile and ‘ambassador for the poor’ runs for Colombia’s presidency
Aida Avella, leftist presidential candidate for the newly revived Patriotic Union (Union...
Colombian criminal gang calls for assassination of left-wing political leaders
Colombia’s second largest criminal organization has released a pamphlet calling for the...
Leftist political party contemplates dissolving with almost 30 members assassinated in 2013
The leftist Marcha Patriotica political party might disband, according to ex-Senator and party...
Colombia govt will consider reinstating Patriotic Union party
The Commission of Peace will discuss the possibility of reintegrating the Patriotic Union (UP), which suffered a state-sponsored genocide in the late 1980s and early 1990s, into Colombian politics by returning the defunct...
1,600 socialist party members murdered in 13 yrs: book
Some 1,600 members of Colombia’s excint socialist party Union Patriotica (UP) were murdered between 1984 and 1997, according to a new book. With his book, Union Patriotica (Patriotic Union), researcher Roberto Romero...
Ex-paramilitary sentenced for Union Patriotica murders
A former paramilitary member was sentenced to 56 years and 10 months in prison for his responsibility for the murders of two members of the Union Patriotica Party (UP) in 1995, newspaper El Espectador reported Thursday. Jesus...
Congressman Cepeda accepts govt apology for father’s murder
Congressman Ivan Cepeda accepted the Colombian government’s apology Tuesday for their part in the 1994 murder of his father, Union Patriotica Senator Manuel Cepeda. Several media reported that the Colombian State,...
Colombian state to apologize for senator’s assassination
The Colombian government will publicly acknowledge Tuesday their responsibility for the 1994 assassination of communist Senator Manuel Cepeda, announced his son, Representative Ivan Cepeda Cepeda was a Union Patriotica...
