A backlash against the Colombian government’s proposed health care overhaul is steadily gaining momentum among Colombia’s scientists and doctors. “We’re not against these reforms as a whole, but certain points…
Drug violence is on the rise in Colombia’s major banana-producing zone, a leading businessman in the area said Monday. Gabriel Harry Hinestrosa, owner of a banana-growing company and and chairman…
Switzerland has signed a treaty with Colombia agreeing to stop the illegal importation of Colombian archeological artifacts, and may also return some artifacts to the South American country. The two…
Colombian police arrest 11 members of a drug ring that smuggled heroin to the United States. Three of the people captured, including the head of the organization, its head of distribution,…
The remains of a Colombian woman killed in Haiti’s earthquake were found on Friday, the Ministry of the Interior said. Sandra Liliana Rivera, 35, reportedly worked in security for Delta…
A Colombian street vendor hopes to shatter the Guinness trivia world record by answering 9,500 questions in 30 hours. Hernando Moncada, who hails from Bucaramanga in Santander, is preparing for…
Two Afro-Colombian community leaders in Cauca were killed by unknown assassins on January 21 and 22, human rights group CODHES announced on Friday. Jose Felix Orejuela, a teacher, and Milton…
For the second consecutive year, Colombia will host a panel of experts from twenty countries to discuss strategies for demobilizing former guerrilla combatants. Forty -seven technocrats will come from a…
The number of internally displaced people in Colombia dropped by 50 percent last year, the president of the Red Cross told President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday. It is not known…