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COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos has ordered 102 police to be transferred over last week’s massacre of protesting coca growers.
Mr Santos tweeted on Tuesday that he had instructed the nation's police director to transfer the officers out of the Tumaco municipality in Narino.
The first — albeit tacit — acknowledgement that security forces were responsible for last Thursday’s massacre came two days after narcotics police opened fire on an international investigation team.
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA