by Our Foreign Desk
COLOMBIAN authorities’ accusation that Marxist rebels made farmers drive the police out of their village are false, a UN envoy said on Sunday.
Hundreds of riot police were sent to take control of the south-western village of El Mango on Saturday, four days after residents burnt down a makeshift barracks and demanded that police leave.
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
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM


