Thursday 23rd May 2013,
Cali, the third largest city in Colombia, has traditionally been one of the country’s most violent cities because of its strategic location for drug trafficking, and fighting between cartels and Full Article »
Colombia is one of Latin America’s largest producers of gold, extracting 55.9 tons of the precious metal. The department of Antioquia is where most gold is mined, followed by the Full Article »
Medellin is Colombia second largest city and the country’s second largest economy.
Since the 2010 World Cup, Colombia has slowly improved its position on the ranking of international soccer federation FIFA.
The approval rating of Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos is measured by four pollsters; Gallup Colombia, Centro Nacional de Consultoria (CNC), Datexco and Ipsos-Napoleon Franco.
The Colombian government and guerrilla group FARC have signed an agreement committing both to end the country’s armed conflict. The following is a translation of the original Spanish text.
The Colombian government and rebel groups FARC and ELN publicly tried to reach a negotiated end to the country’s armed conflict on several occasions. The first attempt with the ELN Full Article »
Colombia’s so-called “false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by members of the armed forces who dressed their victims as guerrillas in order to Full Article »
Colombia’s northwestern Uraba region is located along the Panamanian border and touches both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean. The region consists of jungle along the Panamanian border and the Full Article »
Colombia’s the world’s #1 producer of cocaine, according to both the U.S. State Department and the United Nations’ office on Drugs and Crime. In 2011, Colombia had 64,000 hectares of Full Article »
