General Marcos Evangelista Pinto sued victims for tarnishing his reputation after letting his own men rot in prison for executions carried out under his watch. Pinto is the commander of…
Colombia’s army is “systematically intimidating” soldiers who report corruption, according to a colonel who accused army officials of trafficking drugs and arms, and extortion. The video published by Colonel Alvaro…
Colombia’s ruling party made it clear why the security forces allowed ELN guerrillas to carry out a military offensive but cracked down on peaceful protests. I was already wondering why…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal said Monday that it had found another three corpses in one of multiple mass graves dug by the army to bury executed victims who were reported…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has been asked to sink President Ivan Duque’s plans to send the military to war-torn areas eyed by multinationals. With the support of the Ombudsman’s Office, human…
In the midst of a major wiretapping scandal, Colombia’s largest newspaper El Tiempo is stepping up its reporting on unconfirmed conspiracy theories based on “military intelligence.” The newspaper on Tuesday…
A judge in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Monday jailed a retired army colonel who is accused of ordering the assassination of a demobilized member of former guerrilla group FARC. Retired…
Colombia’s government on Thursday could not deny that “the guerrillas are the police” in the northeastern Arauca province as claimed by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Instead, the Defense Ministry sent…
Everybody except Colombia’s authorities seems to have figured out that far-right group “Aguilas Negras” is closely tied to the country’s security forces. The group sent out its latest list of…