Colombia repatriated 163 victims of human trafficking since 2012
Colombia has facilitated the return of 163 victims of human trafficking since 2012, the country’s foreign ministry announced on Thursday.
Colombia has facilitated the return of 163 victims of human trafficking since 2012, the country’s foreign ministry announced on Thursday.
Colombia has been ranked 140 of 141 countries with respect to safety and security in a travel and tourism competitiveness report released by the World Economic Forum in May.
Three people were killed and more than 70 were injured during celebrations of Deportivo Cali’s victory in Colombia’s soccer league final. In Medellin, 65 were injured in riots.
Bogota has a deficit of 12,000 policemen, the mayor of Colombia’s capital city said Monday.
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary drug trafficking groups could become “political actors” if Congress passes a bill that allows the criminals to be fought under international humanitarian law (IHL), the police warned on Monday.
Seven afro-colombians have been killed in Bogota in the last month, leading community leaders to denounce what they see as an alarming increase in racially motivated murders, newspaper El Espectador…
Extortion in Colombia has gone up nearly 500% since 2008, according to a report released Wednesday. The vast majority of suspected extortionists are common criminals.
Colombia’s conservative opposition has insisted that security in the country has worsened. The allegations have been cast off as “lies” by President Juan Manuel Santos, but the Deputy Minister of Defense was forced admitted…
Bogota’s city council angrily suspended a debate on the city’s “failed” public security policy on Wednesday after the chief of police announced he would not be assisting in the debate.