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Colombia's own government human rights ombudsman has reported alarm at over 87 cases of disappearances in areas where there have been clashes between protestors or rioters and government security forces. While there have been incidents of looting and rioting, there have been...

You can hear in the video (in Spanish) that his call was met with lots of skepticism, though some in the group urged calm, to hear him out. He continued...

Beyond the tax reform, which was the primary theme of the protests, Colombians took the opportunity to express deep discontent with the current government’s failure to manage the COVID pandemic, and lack of vaccines available in the country, and the government’s failure to...

The operation was allegedly masterminded by a Nigerian PR firm and a British nonprofit called Digital Good Governance for Africa that paid Nigerian Twitter trolls to tweet support for Alex Saab in an attempt to influence the judicial process in Cape Verde and broader public opinion.

The charges against Perdomo stem from 2004, when he convinced a woman in the US to collaborate with him on financing for a condominium. The two took out a loan for $950,000 but Perdomo absconded with the money, leaving the woman on the hook for the amount and victimized.

FAST & FURIOUS? Cadena was supposed to be watching over the Perales Airport at night, but instead used his access to open the runway to illegal drag racers. The Colombian government was not amused.

Martha Lucía Osorio Cárdenas & Fernando Zuleta Bermúdez along with their daughter, Leidy Johana Osorio Bermúdez are charged with preying on poor Colombian women in Bogotá, Cali, & the Medellín area, selling them into sexual slavery abroad.

The massacres in Southeast Antioquia appear related to a confrontation between gangs associated with the Urabeños, which is also known as the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), and the Medellin-based Oficina de Envigado. Both are looking to control local drug markets.

“No more defense of the murderous rats that today pose as human rights defenders, no more defense of evil and criminality with ornate writings”—General (ret) Luis Humberto Poveda.

Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, set up to prosecute crimes committed during the armed conflict, announced that it was investigating the killing of 6,402 “disappeared” people, far higher than the initial figure of some 2,000 that they had originally received to...