The International Criminal Court issued an interim report on the Colombian military’s “false positives” extradjudicial killings, finding official complicity up the chain of command.
The Mercosur trade bloc expressed “strongest condemnation of the violence unleashed between Israel and Palestine,” while Cuba and Venezuela issued stronger statements.
Protests swept Colombia following a World Court ruling that awarded Caribbean waters potentially rich in hydrocarbons to Nicaragua.
An “Indigenous and Popular Peace Proposal” has been issued to bring demands for territorial autonomy to the talks between the Colombian government and FARC rebels.
A special court for land restitution in Bolívar, Colombia, issued an historic ruling, ordering the return of 65 hectares to 14 families who had been forced from their lands by paramilitaries.
With peace talks underway in Oslo, Colombian politicians warn that the FARC’s Southern Bloc is continuing to recruit with an eye towards continuing the insurgency.
United Nations independent human rights experts urged Colombian authorities to reconsider proposed constitutional reforms affecting the military criminal law.
The Colombian National Police elite anti-riot squad, ESMAD, stormed the campus of the the Technological University of Chocó, which had been successfully occupied for 40 days.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos on Día de La Raza issued an official apology to indigenous communities in the Amazon for devastation caused by the rubber boom.
A new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that Peru has now achieved rough parity with Colombia in coca production, with vast new areas coming under cultivation.
Students at the University of Cundinamarca are on hunger strike, demanding university authorities negotiate on tuition, teacher contracting and educational issues.
Authorities from four countries cooperated in a months-long operation that led to the arrest in Venezuela of Daniel Barrera AKA "El Loco"—dubbed the "last of the great capos."
