Retired Major General Hernando Pérez Molina was accepted by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace after being investigated for more than a decade for the so-called false positives that would have occurred in the departments of Cauca, Valle and Caldas between 2005 and 2007. According to the JEP’s Chamber for the Definition of Legal Situations, the … Read more
The renowned former paramilitary Rodrigo Tovar, aka George 40 –who led the Northern Bloc of the AUC–was sentenced to 40 years in prison and a fine of 6,500 minimum wages laws in force for the crimes of aggravated homicide and aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime. The sentence, imposed by the Fourth Criminal Court of … Read more
A total of 106,838 foreigners passed through Colombia bound for other countries. A similar volume is expected this year. The migration crisis that was experienced in Necoclí, Antioquia, during the last months of 2021 was just a sample of what happened throughout that year and what is expected for this one: thousands of Africans, Haitians … Read more