Companies who financed paramilitary death squads in Colombia’s banana growing region, including Chiquita’s subsidiary, will face charges for crimes against humanity, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Thursday. The prosecution decision is…
A US judge ruled Colombian war victims are allowed to sue banana giant Chiquita Brands under American jurisdiction, according to the victims’ defense. The court decision quashed the multinational fruit and vegetable…
With 70 members killed and 232 having received death threats, the leader of social umbrella organization Patriotic March urged authorities to prevent the repetition of a political “genocide” that all but…
A surge in attacks on community leaders and human rights defenders that followed the sinking of Colombia’s peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels is leaving a new generation of widows and orphans.
A Colombian court has ordered 19 companies, including the country’s largest bank, to return lands that were stolen in Colombia’s armed conflict and ended up in the hands of private businesses, reported news…
The brother of former President Alvaro Uribe has been called to trial to respond to multiple charges of murder, committed by a paramilitary group he allegedly formed in the 1990s. Santiago Uribe…
Canadian company Gran Colombia Gold said Wednesday it will suspend contracts of some 1,000 miners while paramilitary successor group AGC threatened to assassinate those who are blocking the company’s activity in northern Colombia. The…
Two key gold mining towns in the north of Colombia went on a massive strike Monday amid government attempts to shut down small mining operations and after the assassination of the local miners’…
News that major multinational companies like Coca-Cola are facing terrorism support charges for allegedly financing death squads is stirring major unrest among Colombia’s business community. Coca-Cola, state-run oil company Ecopetrol and 55…