Senator implicated in ‘para-politics’ gets 7-year sentence
Former Colombian senator Vicente Blel was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to seven years in prison by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Blel was arrested in April 2008 for…
Former Colombian senator Vicente Blel was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to seven years in prison by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Blel was arrested in April 2008 for…
Six indigenous people were killed and another fifteen were injured on Monday when the truck they were traveling in plunged off the side of the highway in southern Colombia. The…
For the first time in the country’s history, Colombia has an English-language radio show, broadcast from the University of Antioquia in Medellin. The show, tilted “Prime Cuts,” is hosted by…
The Colombian Institute of Export and Fashion (Inexmoda) will be launching its 22nd annual “Colombiatex de las Americas” trade fair in Medellin on Tuesday. With the hope of bringing together…
Colombia’s coffee region, located in the south-west of the country, was nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Ministry of Culture announced Monday. A statement released by the Ministry…
Six European Parliament officials, and a Spanish senator, will be in Colombia until the end of January in order to investigate cases of human rights abuse. The officials will meet…
A recent study provides chilling evidence that Colombia may be entering into a new era of paramilitary violence. The study, produced by the Fundacion Ideas para la Paz (FIP), claims…
The leaders of the “National Renovation Movement,” a group composed of demobilized FARC and AUC members, claim to have secured nearly 40,000 votes, and hope to gain seats in the…
A report released on Wednesday shows that 1,129 minors were murdered in Colombia in 2009. The report shows that this figure is considerably higher than that in 2008, when 882…