The families of civilians who were executed by Colombia’s security forces to inflate results want the commanders responsible of these atrocities to be stripped of their medals, they said Tuesday.…
Colombia’s peace process is “essential” for the US government’s counternarcotics efforts in the country, embassy officials told newspaper El Tiempo. Two US Embassy officials said that the counternarcotics policy of…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal ordered the government to take urgent measures to curb the mass killing of demobilized FARC guerrillas. In a press release, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)…
US President Joe Biden is increasing pressure on Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to stop trying to obstruct justice and his country’s peace process. Biden wrote his Colombian counterpart that he…
President Ivan Duque on Friday vowed to further militarize counternarcotics efforts in an apparent attempt to revive the controversial “Plan Colombia” strategy. During a military ceremony, the far-right president inaugurated…
The director of the United Nations’ human rights office in Colombia urged to prioritize a government policy to dismantle paramilitary groups in order to secure peace. In an interview with…
At least 11 people were killed in Colombia’s most southwestern municipality over the weekend amid a turf war between drug trafficking groups. Defense Minister Diego Molano told press on Monday…
Colombia’s far-right President Ivan Duque has recreated the conditions that make a new war almost inevitable, according to political scientist Francisco Gutierrez. In his recently published book, “A new cycle…
The sinister practice of Colombia’s army to inflate combat kills by executing civilians could have legal implications for far-right former President Alvaro Uribe and other politicians. The country’s war crimes…