Twenty-nine members of Colombia’s political left have been killed in the last two weeks. The killings spark fears of a renewed spate of political extermination exactly when extreme leftist rebels seek…
The army, the police and intelligence agency DAS assisted paramilitaries in the 1999 assassination of Jaime Garzon, the country’s most popular comedian at the time, according to prosecutors.
Colombia’s newly elected governors, mayors and local lawmakers took office on January 1, succeeding politicians who during the past term were victim of more than 600 acts of violence, including 52 assassinations.
A bomb went off early Wednesday morning at the main office in Bogota of SaludCoop, a health intermediary that is being liquidated after gross mismanagement and fraud.
The wife and son of a northeast Colombian politician were killed on Sunday when an assassin opened fire at the car they were traveling in. The incident took place late Sunday…
Colombia’s ex-president Ernesto Samper said on Wednesday that he will sue the family of a conservative leader murdered just over 20 years ago for implicating him in the homicide.
A former Liberal Party congressman was arrested on Sunday, four months after he was convicted for the 2002 murder of a journalist who had revealed corruption practices by the politician…
Former President Alvaro Uribe said Sunday that one of his party’s leaders has been assassinated. The police, however, denied the victim had anything to do with politics.
Colombia will ask the US to join the investigation of the crashing of a plane in Bogota that left 6 dead and 14 injured while on its way to pick up prominent Conservative Party members.