Colombia: Military Justice Law a Blow to Human Rights
Colombia’s passage of a law to reform the military justice system is a major setback for human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The law creates a serious risk that unlawful killings by the military, known as “false positives,” will be transferred from civilian prosecutors to the military justice system. The law also authorizes public security More...
Teachers sentenced for assisting in sexual abuse of pupils
Three teachers from the north of Colombia have been sentenced to 37 years in prison for assisting a man abusing their students, Colombian media reported Sunday. The Supreme Court ruled the teachers guilty of assisting More...
Colombian poet to sell testicles for $20K to fund trip to Europe
A Colombian poet announced on Wednesday he is selling his testicles for $20,000 to gather money for a European tour. The artist, Raffael Medina Brochero, said the money would be used to fund a tour through Europe More...
Colombia Bans Wild Animals In Circuses
The Colombian Congress voted Wednesday to ban the use of wild animals in any travelling or stationary circuses. They continued to say, “After a six-year public campaign that included scientific reviews and exposed More...
Colombia Poised to Seize Record $1 Billion from Narco Brothers
The record seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars of assets in Colombia has raised the question of how two brothers linked to the Norte del Valle Cartel built up such power while remaining under the radar of More...
Colombia’s women bear the scars of a war among men
Legislation to prevent rapes perpetrated by the Colombian armed forces is proving ineffective The hot and damp jungles of southern Colombia have been torn apart by war for more than 20 years. One of the most devastating More...
30 Colombian LGBT activists attend training
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Roughly 30 activists from across Colombia attended a four-day training in the Colombian capital from May 30-June 2 designed to encourage LGBT people to become more involved in the country’s More...
Colombia’s controversial cure for coke addicts: Give them marijuana
Parts of Bogata — like this area known as “Bronx Street” — have been become wastelands for junkies. To combat the problem, the city plans to distribute free marijuana to 300 addicts of bazuco, More...
No swine flu epidemic in Colombia: Authorities
Colombia’s National Health Institute on Thursday denied the country is having a swine flu epidemic despite 165 confirmed cases and nine fatalities so far this year. The Director of the public health organization, More...
Jaguar Kills Fisherman on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast
A fisherman was killed by a jaguar in a rural area outside Turbo, a city in northern Colombia, in the second attack of this kind in the area since April, media reports said. Matias Escarpeta, who was originally More...
