Sibylla Brodzinsky
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 00:00
Recognising the continued threats, the compensation law will accept new victims until 2021. The defence minister, Rodrigo Rivera, is counting on the conflict being long over by then.
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 00:00
The FARC's capacity for survival was clear in 2008, when in a single month the group lost three people from its seven-member ruling secretariat.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 00:00
Newly instated President Juan Manuel San­tos launched a bold new policy in September that aims not only to offer land to the landless, but to formalize land tenure, rationalize land use, and reverse the violent accumulation of land by illegal forces o
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 00:00
Today's release of Ingrid Betancourt's book, 'Even Silence has an End,' about her six years in captivity in a guerrilla camp, was marked by calls to boycott her memoir.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - 00:00
Waving Colombian flags and blowing on mini vuvuzelas some three hundred marchers in Bogota chanted "Alvarito we love you and we will never forget you." Similar marches were held in a dozen Colombian cities.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
Former paramilitaries are being given short prison sentences in return for their help in seeking the remains of the disappeared.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 00:00
The conviction put the armed forces on edge and raised the hackles of President Alvaro Uribe.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 00:00
An intelligence officer told El Espectador, a newspaper, that they agents had infiltrated the guerrilla front holding the men to such an extent that at one point "there were more members of the government forces in the camp than guerrillas."
Monday, June 14, 2010 - 00:00
Human rights groups that work with displaced persons in Colombia are accusing the government of excluding people from the system.
Friday, June 11, 2010 - 00:00
Luis Alfonso Plazas sentenced to 30 years for torture and disappearance of 11 people after 1985 siege at palace of justice.