Colombia Reports

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe lied about former U.S. President carter’s support for the free trade pact between Colombia and the U.S., says U.S. blogger Dan Kovalik after consulting the Carter Center. [Read more →]

A group of Monopoly fans in Bogotá are part of a 18-city effort to break the Guinness World Record for simultaneous games of the famous Park Brothers board game. [Read more →]

The United States’ East and West coasts have joined forces against Álvaro Uribe. In an editorial Wednesday, the Los Angeles Time joined the New York Times in calling for the Colombian president to not seek a new term. [Read more →]

The Medellín chief of police, in charge of all northeastern police operations resigned Tuesday amid allegations of links with paramilitary boss ‘Don Mario’. [Read more →]

Ex-paramilitary chiefs extradited to the U.S. earlier this year should be returned to Colombia to confess their crimes before the Justic and Peace commission, National Spanish Audience judge Baltasar Garzón said Tuesday. [Read more →]

Colombian Coffee growers say heavy rains and accompanying land slides have reduced the coming coffee harvest by as much as 12 percent. [Read more →]

Colombian anti-narcotics police arrested ten alleged members of the organization of ‘Don Mario’. Four of the captured are members of Colombia’s security forces. [Read more →]

Despite opposition refusal to debate the issue, Interior and Justice minister Fabio Valencia Cossio presented the government’s political and judicial reforms to Congress. [Read more →]

A volcano erupted twice Tuesday in a rural area of the Canalete municipality in the northern coastal department of Córdoba. [Read more →]

Canadian tourists will be able to hop aboard a direct flight to Cartagena by the end of this year, a new boost for Colombia’s expanding tourism sector. [Read more →]