Legislators in Colombia's Congress unanimously approved the historic Ángel Law in late February, setting harsher punishments for animal abusers and a legal pedagogical framework to prevent further cases of animal abuse.
The bill was originally introduced in 2023 by senator Andrea Padilla, a psychologist and lawyer with a background in animal rights activism. The law's name, Ángel, was inspired by the rescue of a six-month-old dog which had been brutally skinned in the northeastern Colombian town of Sobayá, Boyacá.
