Colombia

The Puracé volcano in southwest Colombia has registered a noticeable uptick in seismic and gas-emission activity over the last 24-hours, prompting authorities to maintain heightened monitoring of one of the

The brother of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his involvement in homicides committed by his paramilitary group in the early 1990’s. The Antioquia appeals court convicted Santiago Uribe, the youngest of the two remaining Uribe brothers, for his role in the creation and leadership of the 12 The post […]

The chiefs of Colombia’s intelligence agency DNI and the Armed Forces announced investigations into alleged ties between some of their top officials and the FARC dissident group EMBF. In a response, DNI director Jorge Lemus said that he wasn’t aware of alleged ties between intelligence personnel and lieutenants of guerrilla chief “Calarca” that were […]

Police in Colombia’s capital Bogota arrested their former director, retired General Rodolfo Palomino, who was sentenced to a seven years in prison on Friday. The sentence came months after the Supreme Court convicted Palomino for trying to prevent the arrest of a businessman on land theft charges in 2014. The businessman, Luis Gonzalo Gallo, has The post […]

President Gustavo Petro is confronting explosive accusations of treason and complicity after a Noticias Caracol investigative report revealed alleged channels of communication and the transfer of highly classified military intelligence

Colombia’s Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez ordered an investigation after television network Caracol revealed that the army’s personnel chief and a top intelligence official had ties to FARC dissident group EMBF. According to Caracol, the prosecution found the evidence on memory sticks, phones and computers that were seized after EMBF commander […]

A vibrant community tradition to theatrically restage a decisive moment in their independence struggle is vital to Panama’s Guna peopleBeyond the written word and photographic evidence, how does one keep history alive? For the Guna people of northern Panama, community theatre emerges as a potent form of cultural documentation and preservation. This […]

Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighbourhood saw extraordinary violence in the 2000s, with hundreds of people detained, tortured or killedWhen Operation Orión began in October 2002, Hermey Mejía thought the violence that had ravaged his corner of Medellín for decades would finally come to an end.The 22-year-old told his mother, Teresa Gómez, that he hoped […]

Militias are coercing, bribing and kidnapping young people in remote areas to be fighters, drug sellers, informants or sex slavesIn spring last year, Ana’s* friends began to disappear. Members of an armed group had begun recruiting children in her village in Colombia’s north-west region of Norte de Santander, promising them food, money, mobile phones […]

Colombia’s migration authority and the army’s anti-kidnapping unit said they rescued 17 children of a Jewish sect that had settled in a small-town hotel in the north of the country. Among the children were five US citizens whose disappearance had been reported to Interpol, Migracion Colombia said on social media platform Twitter. Medellin newspaper El […]

Colombian authorities have rescued 17 minors belonging to Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect widely accused across several countries of child abuse, forced marriage, kidnapping and extreme coercive control. The

It took 40 years to turn Gorgona into a biodiversity haven and model marine protected area. Now a new coastguard station has sparked fears of militarisation and ecological ruinFor more than 15 years, Luis Fernando Sánchez Caicedo had dedicated himself to human rights in Colombia, supporting young people and advocacting for Afro-descendant and campesino – […]

Every 20 hours, somewhere in Colombia, a child vanishes into the ranks of an illegal armed group. That is the grim calculation released this week by UNICEF and the United

Cannon, three coins and a cup taken from San José, a 1708 wreckage that could hold items worth billions of dollarsA cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup are among the first objects recovered by Colombian scientists from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the legendary Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 after being attacked by a British fleet.The […]

Victims and prosecutors in the case against Colombia’s former president, Alvaro Uribe, requested more time to appeal the sentence that absolved the far-right politician of fraud and bribery charges. Presidential candidate Ivan Cepeda, former justice minister Eduardo Montealegre, and delegate prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice Marlene Orjuela […]