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More than 40 police from the Directorate of Carabineros and Rural Security (DICAR) and Guaviare’s Departmental Police will use the base to expand patrols, support the community, prevent environmental crimes, and combat narcotrafficking. In addition to the construction, DICAR,...

“Unless the government takes serious action, many more human rights defenders are likely to be killed, leaving hundreds of vulnerable communities undefended,” Vivanco said.

In the sentence, the judge denied David Wigoda Rinzler the benefits of probation and house arrest but ordered his capture, with the understanding that he is a fugitive from justice. Rinzler is thought by Colombian authorities to be in Israel, and they will seek to coordinate his...

While the homicide rate in Colombia fell again in 2020, the nation struggled to confront a number of other security threats. The 12,018 homicides recorded across the country last year marked a murder rate of 24.3 per 100,000 people, down just over six percent from the total...

Behamin Sebastián Benedikt Weber, Auer Hans Werner Schmitz, Lucasz Tomasz Banas and Daniel Alejandro Calacaño Sánchez were caught with 9 tarantulas and 1 egg. One of the German suspects presented an authorization by a German museum, but foreign museums have no authority to...

Israel Salí Brami was wanted by Israeli authorities for belonging to a narcotics trafficking network along with criminals Golan Ben Baruch and Assi Moosh, both expelled by Migración Colombia in 2018 and 2017, respectively.

While EPM seeks a litigation jurisdiction of Antioquia Administrative court, the consortium is countersuing in an international court, away from potential political influence in Antioquia’s capital of Medellín.

Furthermore, Ecopetrol presented in its defense a medical board’s findng that “the former worker has maladaptive personality traits that limit the therapeutic response, despite the multiple pharmacological schemes ordered by psychiatry and the supportive psychotherapy carried out...

Kenigsberger, though already convicted, is also still being investigated for participation in sexual exploitation of minors with the promotion of sexual tourism plans that included children.

According to the comptroller, these 28 individuals would be responsible for economic losses exceeding $400 million USD. Among those individuals are former EPM general managers Federico Restrepo and Juan Esteban Calle; former mayors of Medellín Anibal Gaviria & Fabio Salazar, and...