Two community leaders were killed in just 24 hours in southwest Colombia while the FARC said four of its demobilized rebels have been murdered over the past week. The violence…
A pamphlet that appeared in Cordoba, a province in northern Colombia, threatened community leaders who are connected to a woman whose murder on Friday sparked a wave on indignation. In…
Social organizations have announced vigils in Medellin and Cali at 6PM on Tuesday in protest of the ongoing killing of the country’s community leaders and human rights defenders. The killing…
The murder of a social activist’s in northern Colombia that sparked indignation across the country reveals the systematic inability of peasants to find land. María del Pilar Hurtado dedicated the…
A leading Colombian opposition senator told Spanish news agency EFE that the mass killing of his country’s community leaders and human rights defenders are a “systematic action” that seeks to…
Colombia’s defense minister and the mayor of the town in northern Colombia where armed men assassinated a community leader have been caught lying about the murder. Defense Minister Guillermo Botero…
Colombia’s embattled President Ivan Duque on Saturday ordered an investigation into the murder of a community leader in northern Colombia six hours after one had already been announced. The Prosecutor…
While President Ivan Duque was enjoying a trip to Europe, the murder of yet another community leader on Friday triggered a wave of indignation in Colombia unseen in recent memory.…
Hugo George is one of the hundreds of social leaders who have been murdered in Colombia during its peace process. He was also my friend. I met Hugo on a…