USA: protests over Uribe appointment
Highly respected Colombian human rights activist, Jesuit Javier Giraldo Moreno, has published an open letter criticising the appointment of former president Alvaro Uribe as professor at the Jesuit University of Georgetown, Washington DC.
Thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction, says UN report
A recently released UN report has found that indigenous tribes in Colombia are critically endangered.
Colombia: Do human rights matter?
Ines PG-Ward from Bogota looks at how much human rights abuses affected the election.
Colombia: Uribe’s right hand man wins elections
Juan Manual Santos won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential elections. But, says Gearòid Loingsigh, in a special report for LAB from Bogota, he faces a disastrous legacy.
Defending democracy: the trial of Plazas Vega
In a special article for LAB, Gearóid Ó Loingsigh reports from Colombia on the jailing of a military officer for "disappearing" 11 people in 1985.
Mockus: not quite man of the hour
Gearóid Ó Loingsigh, a journalist based in Bogotá, gives his interpretation of the surprising election results in a special piece for LAB.
Colombia set to elect Green leader
Antanas Mockus on course to win in the first round of the elections, as he continues with his remarkable rise in the opinion polls.
Colombia: And the biggest losers are…the pollsters (and Antanas Mockus)
what the Colombian press says about the elections.
Colombia: Scenes from a Green Revolution
Green Party supporters are circulating images on the internet to mobilise support for Mockus.
Green regeneration in Colombia
Presidential hopeful Antanas Mockus is persuading many that he can reform Colombia's parasitic and abusive political culture.
