The lieutenant colonel ordering the assassination of a FARC member in northern Colombia in April planned the murder weeks in advance, according to leaked prosecution documents. Weekly Semana reported over…
A mayor candidate whose company allegedly financed death squads accused a journalist of being a FARC guerrilla after again being exposed by a demobilized paramilitary leader. Demobilized paramilitary commander Jorge…
Colombia’s National Electoral Council (CNE) raised the alarm about possible voter fraud in multiple provinces and the country’s second largest city, Medellin. The alarm was raised about suspicious increases in…
Colombia’s authorities confirmed another massacre on Monday amid an apparently intensifying turf war over control over the border with Venezuela. The bodies of three men and one woman were found…
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More than a thousand Venezuelans crossed the border into Colombia on Saturday night over rumors of an imminent turf war between illegal armed groups in their town, according to authorities.…
Colombia’s army can’t seem to shake a decades-old habit of covering up extrajudicial executions by claiming having guerrillas killed in combat. On Wednesday, a press statement from a farmers’ association…
Increased military and paramilitary activity in the northeast Colombia has worsened the situation of the locals who were already terrorized by guerrillas, according to human rights defenders. The coca-rich region…