Tag: Colombia

• Friday, May 20th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Colombian VP says progress made on Pecci's murder probe

  

  Paraguayan and Colombian authorities Thursday announced progress was being made in the investigation of Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci's May 10 murder while honeymooning in an exclusive Caribbean beach resort.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Colombians “undecided” are the third strongest 'party' for 29 May presidential election

  

  With less than two weeks to the first round, 29 May, of the Colombian presidency election, the undecided voters have become decisive for the outcome according to the latest opinion poll by T&SE, Technology and Electoral Services, with data collected between 23 April and 8 May, interviewing 8,000 people across the country.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  ELN announces ceasefire so that Colombians may vote in peace

  

  Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas Monday announced they would enforce a ceasefire during the upcoming presidential elections, in what has been perceived as a step towards peace talks with the future administration.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Murdered Paraguayan Prosecutor laid to rest

  

  Paraguayan anti-drug and organized crime Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was murdered in cold blood last week while honeymooning in an exclusive beach resort in Colombia, was laid to rest at Asunción's Recoleta Cemetery Sunday.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Colombian election in two weeks could represent a historic change in the country's history

  

  The specter of assassination is again haunting the electoral campaign in Colombia, where a left-wing candidate has a real chance of becoming president for the first time in a country that has a history of political careers ending in a hail of bullets.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 20:32 UTC

  Colombian media say international terrorism had to do with prosecutor's killing

  

  Two Lebanese nationals and a Brazilian citizen are suspected of having been involved in the murder of Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while he was honeymooning in Colombia with his wife Claudia Aguilera earlier this week, it was reported.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Constitutional Court greenlights medically assisted suicide in Colombia

  

  Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled by 6 votes to 3 to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. Euthanasia in Colombia is already legal, but in this case, it is the patient and not the doctor who executes the action to end his or her life.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Paraguayan anti-drug prosecutor shot dead while honeymooning in Colombia

  

  Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, whose area of expertise was the fight against drug trafficking, has been shot dead Tuesday while on a honeymoon trip on the Colombian island of Baru near the city of Cartagena, it was reported.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Gulf Clan lashes back at Colombian society to defend their leader

  

  Around a dozen, vehicles were burned, and businesses and schools were closed as fear gripped ordinary Colombians in various parts of the country as they came across threatening pamphlets warning of an “armed strike” by the Gulf Clan in retaliation for Otoniel's extradition.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 19:45 UTC

  Bachelet envoy at odds with Colombian Gov't over FARC massacre

  

  The Government of Colombia said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' envoy had everything mixed up regarding the responsibilities of the State in the Bojayá massacre perpetrated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas 20 years ago.