Published by InsightCrime on September 18, 2020.
A narrative of how illegal timber traders corrupted security, judicial, and other government officials in Santander.
September 18, 2020
How Colombia Regulators Became Purveyors of Illegal Wood
Tag: Corruption
Negación de nexos de Fuerza Pública con paramilitares: “farsa que no vale ni una moneda de cinco centavos”
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 2 de septiembre de 2020.
Recently declassified U.S. government documents from the 1990s attest to the Colombian military’s low morale and collaboration with paramilitary groups.
September 2, 2020
Los Mattos: retrato de una familia para enmarcar
Profile of brothers from an elite family in Cesar, an emblematic case of land concentration and support for paramilitarism.
August 26, 2020
Colombia: Indigenous Kids at Risk of Malnutrition, Death
Published by Human Rights Watch on August 13, 2020.
Child malnutrition remains severe among the Wayuu people of La Guajira. It is a result of severe corruption and threatens to worsen with COVID-19.
August 13, 2020
Sahagún, donde hacer periodismo es echarse la soga al cuello
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 6 de agosto de 2020.
About the dangers of practicing journalism in Sahagún, Córdoba, a town that is the birthplace of a disproportionate number of political leaders.
August 6, 2020
La guerra contra la minería ilegal
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
Illegal mining is worsening in Chocó’s Atrato River basin.
July 28, 2020
Criminalidad en la Guajira: ¿quién es Marquitos Figueroa? ¿qué hizo Kiko Gómez?
Publicado por Semana el 22 de julio de 2020.
A narco-criminal organization has taken control of politics and corruption in La Guajira, one of Colombia’s poorest departments.
July 22, 2020
Presunta red de tráfico de armas involucraría sectores del ejército
Publicado por Semana el 18 de junio de 2020.
Revelations about a network of military personnel involved in weapons trafficking to criminal groups.
June 18, 2020
June 14, 2020
The daily El Espectador reveals the existence of “Code Black,” a corruption network within the U.S.-funded Antinarcotics Directorate of Colombia’s National Police. Starting in 2017, police whistleblowers began denouncing embezzlement and a scheme to use wiretaps to shake down narcotraffickers for money. The Prosecutor-General’s Office’s (Fiscalía’s) investigation has since moved very slowly.
June 14, 2020
Las actividades ilegales de inteligencia: un viejo desafío no resuelto
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 5 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the latest military surveillance abuse scandal with Colombian jurist Federico Andreu.
June 5, 2020
May 21, 2020
Colombia’s Prosecutor-General’s Office (Fiscalía) issues arrest warrants for 10 mayors, alleging corruption in COVID-19-related contracting. The Comptroller’s office announces that it has detected US$110 million in likely contracting cost overruns, mainly for medical equipment, food, and related coronavirus services.
May 21, 2020
Operación Bastón: Corrupción en el Ejército colombiano de generales y oficiales
Publicado por Semana el 16 de mayo de 2020.
An internal review of the army’s top levels identifies a significant number of officers who may be involved in corruption.
May 16, 2020
May 16, 2020
The Colombian newsweekly Semana reveals the existence of “Operación Bastón,” a counterintelligence effort that sought to root out corruption inside the country’s army. The operation found 16 of the Army’s 63 generals involved in suspicious behavior, including one who likely helped the FARC for years. The magazine alleges that Operación Bastón—begun in response to a house-cleaning recommendation from NATO when Colombia affiliated itself as a partner of the alliance—was greatly weakened by the high command that President Duque named at the beginning of 2019.
May 16, 2020
Entrevista con Carlos Holmes Trujillo, ministro de Defensa
Publicado por Semana el 14 de mayo de 2020.
Colombia’s defense minister discusses recent human rights and corruption scandals within the armed forces.
May 14, 2020
March 14, 2020
- El Tiempo reveals that corrupt Colombian police embezzled funds, including U.S. assistance, by falsifying over 25,000 hours of aircraft flight time over several years.
March 14, 2020
March 4, 2020
- The investigative news outlet La Nueva Prensa triggers a political firestorm by revealing audios of a top Duque campaign figure arranging a 2018 vote-buying scheme with José Guillermo Hernández, alias “el Ñeñe,” a large landowner with close organized crime ties who was under investigation for murder when he was killed in Brazil in 2019.
- The Army acknowledges that it transported “el Ñeñe” on its aircraft on at least two occasions since 2015.
March 4, 2020