Native Colombia lost one of its most important leaders to COVID-19 on Saturday, the national indigenous organization ONIC announced. Luis Fernando Arias, the Chief Counselor of the ONIC, died in a hospital in the northern city of Barranquilla weeks after testing positive to the coronavirus. “His return to the bosom of Mother Earth fills us […]
Colombia’s new defense minister asked mayors for financial support on Wednesday to add 21,000 men and women to the National Police before the end of next year. According to Defense Minister Diego Molina, the “Segments for Life” strategy seeks to “strengthen police action in places where there is excessive crime.” To do this, Molano said […]
The government of far-right President Ivan Duque regressed the situation for journalist to “Colombia’s darkest days” while protecting his bubble, according to press freedom FLIP. Recurring police brutality against journalists, top government officials’ dismissive attitude tand their participation in the stigmatization journalists reversed the freedom of the press decades, according to the FlIP. In it […]
Colombia’s peace commissioner seems unable to understand that no country in the world would threaten global peace just to please far-right President Ivan Duque. The international community appears to have given up on the Colombian government Peace Commissioner Miguel Ceballos who continues to deny that, unlike every other government in the world, the Duque administration […]
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque announced on Monday that authorities will legalize the migration status of an estimated million undocumented Venezuelans. Duque made the historic announcement after a meeting with the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who called the decision as “an emblematic gesture.” According to Colombia’s migration agency, more than half of […]
Colombia’s new defense minister Diego Molano kicked off his first day in office on Saturday negating the security threat posed by political violence. In his first speech, Molano confirmed public concerns that the business administrator is loyal to the controversial Democratic Center party above all else. The defense minister’s negation of the violence against people […]
The sophisticated guerrilla marketing of Colombia’s ELN rebels is successful because of their strategic use of terrorism. When confronted with terrorism, the brutality of the deadly violence may seem everything but sophisticated or the strategic marketing any legitimate cause, service or product. This is logical unless you’re in a brutal armed conflict that per definition […]
Efforts of Colombia’s prosecution to jail the policemen who discovered that President Ivan Duque‘s far-right party conspired with the mafia to rig the 2018 elections suffered a major setback on Wednesday. The Bogota superior tribunal revoked a lower court’s decision to detain Major Yefferson Tocarruncho and Sergeant Wadith Velasquez, claiming the prosecution had no evidence […]
Multinational Glencore’s subsidiary in Colombia said Thursday that it will abandon its mining interests amid dropping profits, and growing human rights and environmental concerns. In a press release, Glencore subsidiary Prodeco announced it will return its mining titles in La Guajira, where the company partly owns Colombia’s largest coal mine, and the neighboring Cesar province. […]
After accusing students, indigenous people and even Colombia’s middle class of terrorism, Defense Minister Diego Molano will now confront ELN guerrillas. This may be a bit of a problem, because not only are the ELN actual terrorists, they also have more than 50 years of experience in guerrilla warfare and could be stronger than ever. […]