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, th...

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...

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 prev...

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 ...

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 disappear...

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

At the eastern fringes of the Andes, where the Orinoco River Basin unfurls in an ondulating canvas of green, punctuated by majestic rivers and sandstone mesas, lies one of the […]