Colombia’s new president ‘El Tigre’ promises an iron fist – but that may not solve the violence he has inherited

Dismantling the 2016 peace agreement and introducing a military clampdown is not the answer to rising levels of violence.

Colombia bets on 'the Tiger,' a Trump-backed far-right populist leading race to the presidency

He won the preliminary vote count in Colombia’s presidential elections on Sunday, with promises that a vote for him would ...

Two sides of a political chasm share one fear in Colombia's presidential race: A return to the past

More than 10 million people are victims of the harshest acts of violence in Colombia's six decades of armed conflict.

Trump-backed de la Espriella holds razor-thin lead in Colombia's election as rival challenges vote

A deeply divided electorate will choose Colombia’s next president in a runoff on Sunday that pits a progressive against a ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military

BOGOTA, ColombiaBOGOTA, Colombia — Violence intensified in southwestern Colombia on Monday when a bomb blast injured six people in the city of Jamundi and an attack by insurgents on a police station ...
Newsday

Violence escalates in Colombia with dozens of attacks before presidential vote

BOGOTA, Colombia — A spate of attacks against civilians and military bases in Colombia's southwestern region has raised security concerns as the country heads to a May presidential election in which ...
Phys.org

Getting to the roots of gang violence in Colombia

First and foremost, the researcher needs information about violence in Colombia to test this hypothesis. And he needs a lot of it because, ultimately, he wants to document the ebbs and flows in the ...