The U.N. High Commission on Human Rights has welcomed the adoption of the Victims and Land Restitution Law but also expressed several recommendations and concerns about its application, various media…
Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo has rejected accusations that the Land Restitution Law will foster unwanted occupations of land, Colombian media reported. On Wednesday, the minister released a press statement…
Colombia’s agriculture minister on Monday blamed dirty politicians for the massive protests of farmers who had blocked roads and allegedly squatted farmland in the northeast of Colombia. According to Minister…
Anti-riot police have begun removing more than 5,000 homeless farm workers who had been squatting farmland in the northeast Colombian Urabá region since Monday. According to the authorities, 250 members…
An alleged ringleader of the neo-paramilitary organization “Los Urabeños” has voluntarily turned himself in to authorities in Medellin, Antioquia department, Caracol Radio reported. Felix Alberto Villa Valderrama, alias “Carepollo” or…
The leader of a group of people displaced by violence, who was campaigning for land restitution, is murdered in a busy shopping mall in the south of Medellin, Caracol reported…
Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday against Chiquita Brands International for their alleged role in supporting the massacre and torture of 931 people in Colombia’s banana growing region. The two cases,…
Thirteen local politicians in Uraba, northern Colombia, are charged with having had ties to the Elmer Cardenas bloc of demobilized paramilitary organization the AUC, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The demobilized…
The national police seize a eader of the south-west Colombia-based narco-trafficking organization “Los Rastrojos” in Medellin, RCN Radio reported Friday. Jader Blanquicet, alias “Uraba,” is accused of at least 150…