New threats have been made against the mothers of soldiers accused of Soacha’s ‘false positives’ murders, as well as against the municipality’s ombudsman, reported radio station Caracol on Tuesday. It…
A new “narc-deco” art exhibition in will open in Bogota’s Galeria Valenzuela Klenner on January 28. “Traquira: following the aesthetic of narc-deco,” by artist Victor Escobar, takes aspects of the drug-trafficking…
Colombia’s largest pyramid company DMG has allegedly sent notice to three Colombian state governors demanding repayment of supposed debts, reported El Tiempo on Tuesday. The imprisoned DMG boss David Murcia…
46 Colombian soldiers suspected of committing extrajudicial killings were this weekend treated to a day of clowns, aromatherapy and fine dining. The soldiers have been confined to military bases south of…
Just one week remains until the start of one of Colombia’s biggest cultural events – the Carnival of Barranquilla is set to take the city by storm at the beginning…
The native Colombian fruit known as “borojo” will be cultivated and used as a key ingredient in two new high-energy drinks. The fruit, which grows in the western Colombian department…
Seven Colombian soldiers were called to trial on Monday for the 2008 assassination of indigenous leader Jose Edwin Legarda Vasquez. Legarda was killed when the members of the army’s Jose…
Colombia’s Transport Police announced an alarming increase in the number of traffic offenses in the country, reported television channel RCN on Monday. In January alone over 100,000 drivers have already been…
Colombia’s Ministry of Communications announced it will train nine indigenous communities in the south of the country to use computers and the internet. Training will take place in a boat…