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May 1, 2021 Twitter deleted a tweet of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe, claiming the far-right politician was “glorifying violence” during anti-government protests. The intervention of the social media platform followed mass indignation over a tweet in which Uribe called to support the use of deadly force against protesters. The tweet of the former Medellin Cartel associate followed the assassination of a teenager by a policemen in Cali where human rights organizations fear security forces massacred 14 people since Wednesday. Let’s support the right of soldiers and police to ...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Colombia's former president, Alvaro Uribe, reacts during a news conference after a private hearing at Supreme Court of Justice, in Bogota, Colombia October 8, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo BOGOTA (Reuters) - Hearings on whether to close a witness tampering investigation into former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will remain suspended pending the decision of a tribunal that will consider adding additional victims to the case, a judge said on Friday. Proceedings that could close the investigation, requested by the attorney general’s office a...

April 6, 2021 A political ally of President Ivan Duque sabotaged a ceasefire with Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group, the ELN, according to former President Juan Manuel Santos. At an event organized by the country’s war crimes tribunal (JEP), Santos said his administration failed to sign a ceasefire with the ELN before leaving office in 2018 because “an important spokesperson” of the current administration told the guerrillas to wait. We were about to sign a ceasefire before leaving the government, but unfortunately a very important spokesman of the current government went to te...

Victims want Colombia to strip military war criminals of medals March 17, 2021 The families of civilians who were executed by Colombia’s security forces to inflate results want the commanders responsible of these atrocities to be stripped of their medals, they said Tuesday. The representative of the Association of Mothers of False Positives (Mafapo), Jacqueline Castillo, said that victims of her organization want the security forces to revoke decorations of war criminals as a means of compensation. Castillo expressed the victims’ wish during the presentation of a report to the war crimes ...

Campaigners beam ‘drop the patents’ onto pharma lobby HQ on eve of pandemic anniversary Date: 11 March 2021 ‘Drop the patents. End vaccine apartheid’ beamed onto UK pharma lobby head office as figures including Bernie Sanders and Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela’s widow, demand fairer access to vaccines Head of UNAIDs compares pharma’s covid-response to AIDs crisis UK risks complicity in “historic failure” that could cost countless more lives if it fails to act, campaigners warn Pharmaceutical companies are under fresh pressure to unlock vaccines for low and middle income countri...