The United Nations on Monday condemned the assassination of the sixth indigenous guard in just weeks in the troubled southwest of Colombia. Toribio Canas, 53, was gunned down at his…
At least seven people were killed when a small aircraft crashed in a residential area in a city in southwest Colombia, authorities confirmed Sunday. According to preliminary reports, the plane…
President Ivan Duque said Thursday that a guerrilla killed in combat, and not the initial suspects, was behind the massacre in which a mayoral candidate was killed in southwest Colombia.…
A mayoral candidate and five others were murdered while on campaign in southwest Colombia, local authorities said Monday. The car of Liberal Party candidate Karina Garcia, who was running for…
Some 500 people have been caught in the crossfire between dissident FARC guerrillas and the military in southwest Colombia for a week, the United Nations said Monday. According to the…
Colombia’s Congress summoned the government of President Ivan Duque to explain what it has done to curb extreme levels of violence against the country’s indigenous peoples. The Senate’s Peace Commission…
President Ivan Duque is not considering the demand of native Colombian authorities to meet, despite their claims that violence against indigenous has turned into genocide, Colombia’s interior minister said Monday.…
A group claiming to be Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel claimed responsibility for the attempted massacre of a group of native Colombians in the southwest of the country on Saturday. The attack…
Colombia’s national indigenous organization ONIC declared a humanitarian emergency on Friday over an escalation in ethnic violence against native Colombians. Two more were assassinated the day after. The ONIC said…