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Colombia’s Foreign Minister Omar Bula apologized for “inappropriate and disrespectful” comments he made in 2020, when he claimed that US Democrats “thrive in illegality.”
In a letter to the Democratic Party, Bula offered his “sincere apologies for comments I made in past social posts concerning leaders of the Democratic Party.”
The foreign minister referred to c...
Colombia’s far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella failed to live up to his promise to “recuperate” state-control of conflict regions through a “shockwave” of hardline security measures within 90 days in office.
His first three months in office ended this week, and by almost every metric violence is rising.
Non-state armed groups and organized criminal grou...
Human rights officials warned on Tuesday that the reconstruction of west Colombia, which was partially destroyed by an August 10 earthquake, fails to show progress.
In a statement, the Ombudsman’s Office warned that “difficulties persist in providing assistance to and supporting the recovery of affected communities, particularly with regard to housing, access to essent...
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered State forces to protect corporate media, claiming alerts over “possible terrorist attacks by the ELN” guerrilla group.
De la Espriella said he issued “specific instructions to ensure that the full capacity of the State is directed toward protecting” private television networks RCN and Caracol, “their journalists, em...
The president of the JEP announced radical cuts in the war crimes tribunal’s spending, which was forced to cut $53 million (COP170 billion) from its annual budget by Colombia’s Congress.
In a press statement, JEP president Danilo Rojas said that the court would abandon its 15,000m² main office in Bogota and move to a much smaller building in March of next year.
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