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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
THE brother of former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe has been arrested for murder and conspiring with death squads.
Santiago Uribe was arrested in the city of Medellin over allegations that he founded the so-called 12 Apostles paramilitary unit in the early 1990s.
The death squad is believed to have plotted dozens of assassinations, with the collusion of local police, from the Uribe family’s La Carolina cattle ranch in the northern state of Antioquia.
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