Colombia works to combat election fraud in 2014
Colombia’s interior minister on Tuesday met with the election monitoring task force to tackle vote tampering and illegal financing in the upcoming 2014 elections.
Colombia’s interior minister on Tuesday met with the election monitoring task force to tackle vote tampering and illegal financing in the upcoming 2014 elections.
New parents Shakira and Gerard Pique have already become the subjects of an internet scandal due to the release of a photo showing their newborn riding in the front seat…
Bogota police on Tuesday captured a senior FARC commander in charge of extortion and kidnapping. The captured guerrilla, Victor Hugo Silva Soto alias ‘Erick’ and ‘El Chivo’ (‘Goat’), has over 30…
The suspected boss of the “Oficina de Envigado,” a Medellin crime syndicate formed by Pablo Escobar, on Tuesday was extradited to Colombia to face charges. Edison Rodolfo Rojas, alias “Pichi,” who is…
Colomian president Juan Manual Santos on Monday affirmed his intention to achieve peace with the country’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, by any means necessary. “We must persevere, we will…
More than half of Colombia’s economy is informal which leaves the majority of workers untaxed and without pensions — a government-sponsored program is fighting back by training workers, investing in…
Young Colombians from one of the most dangerous parts in southwestern Colombia have taken up cameras and microphones to promote a message of peace in an international reporting competition financed…
A delegate for women displaced by violence in Colombia’s inspector general’s office Thursday said the government is failing to provide protection especially for women and also alleged corruption. According to El…
After pushing FARC rebels out of one of their base camps in western Colombia, the military on Tuesday found instruction manuals for new guerrilla initiates. After an intense battle with…