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: Scenes from a Green Revolution
Green Party supporters are circulating images on the internet to mobilise support for Mockus.
COLOMBIA: HUMAN RIGHTS CHIAROSCURO IN 2011
OXFAM partner Somos Defensores issues new report on human rights abuses in Colombia.
Colombia: human rights organisation wins award
Human rights activist wins award for her organisation's struggle to regain land violently seized by paramilitary groups. Article, in Spanish, from La Semana.
UK: Colombian journalist refused entry
Award-winning Colombian journalist Claudia Duque has been refused entry to Britain. She was invited by the National Union of Journalists to give a speech about her work in upholding human rights.
Colombia: And the biggest losers are…the pollsters (and Antanas Mockus)
what the Colombian press says about the elections.
Green regeneration in Colombia
Presidential hopeful Antanas Mockus is persuading many that he can reform Colombia's parasitic and abusive political culture.
Colombia: Multinational Banana Corporation Displaces Afro-Colombian Peace Communities
Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied Afro-Colombian peace communities in the Curvaradó river basin in order to clear the land for banana cultivation.
COLOMBIA: Afro-Colombian communities under attack again
Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó suffer land invasions once again. Read more for an English summary followed by original in Spanish.
WIKILEAKS: Latin America doesn’t trust China
New cables revealed in El Pais, a Madrid daily, show how Latin American countries are increasingly wary of China's growing presence in the region.