Medellin Mayor Daniel Quintero said on Monday that Colombia’s second largest city will shut down again on Friday to prevent the collapse of the city’s healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic. The four-day lockdown is the first in Colombia’s second largest city since President Ivan Duque began relaxing his March 25 lockdown in late April. […]
The extraordinary public support for Colombia Reports is not just the reason why this website hasn’t been shut down, it is part of a trend of increased public participation that is saving the freedom of press. Had it not been for the 500 members of the editorial board and the volunteers who copy-edit the English […]
Colombia’s defense ministry has been reporting inflated statistics on the forced eradication of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, multiple counternarcotics officials told weekly Semana. Eight civilian eradicators and counternarcotics officials confirmed the fraud that reportedly has been going on for at least 10 years and is known by the United States embassy. Colombia’s defense […]
Colombia’s capital Bogota and the country’s second largest city, Medellin, will reinstate partial lockdowns as COVID-19 is threatening to collapse healthcare. In Bogota, Mayor Claudia Lopez said Saturday that she will reinstate a rotating lockdown starting Monday in the hope that a reduction of people in the street will prevent a collapse of the capital’s […]
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque may want to remember he is a mafia lackey before citing the pope in one of his Orwellian rants. I wasn’t raised Catholic, so I don’t know any good Pope Francis quotes, but I was raised Christian and internet allows me to remember those bible verses that wipe the floor with […]
After independent media revealed evidence of ties between #Colombia’s ruling party and the mafia, the country’s corporate television networks were quick to cover this up. The news programs of RCN Television and Caracol dedicated not even a second to the scandal that led opposition Senator Gustavo Petro to call President Ivan Duque‘s 2018 election “illegitimate.” […]
Colombia’s former chief prosecutor said Wednesday he has the evidence to see former President Alvaro Uribe convicted for two massacres. In an interview with Semana, former Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre said he and his former deputy, Jorge Perdomo, are able to prove Uribe was involved in the El Aro and La Granja massacres when the […]
The human rights adviser of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque is again facing charges she colluded with paramilitary death squads,charges that were dropped in 2014. Bogota‘s transitional justice court asked the Supreme Court to revise its decision to absolve former Interior Minister Nancy Patricia Gutierrez of charges she was elected to the senate in 2002 with […]
Colombia’s State Council is studying a writ to nullify the election of controversial chief prosecutor Francisco Barbosa, claiming that President Ivan Duque‘s friend disrupts the balance of powers. The writ was filed by two law students who want the country’s highest administrative court to define fixed periods for a chief prosecutor that prevent the accumulation […]
Opposition leader Gustavo Petro‘s claim he won Colombia’s 2018 elections is nothing but rhetoric as he has no evidence of fraud. Evidence that the Democratic Center party of President Ivan Duque conspired with narcos to buy votes is compelling enough to get people in court, but evidence this changed the election results just doesn’t exist. […]