Ambassador to OAS to keep his role: Govt
Colombia says the ambassador to the OAS, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, will not be replaced, despite reports Monday stating otherwise. In a statement released late on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said,…
Colombia says the ambassador to the OAS, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, will not be replaced, despite reports Monday stating otherwise. In a statement released late on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said,…
Former paramilitary leader Aldides de Jesus Durango, alias “Rene,” was sentenced to 24 years on Monday for the murder of 31 people, Spanish news agency EFE reported. The prosecutor in…
Three Navy personnel died on Monday during a fire on a gunboat in the southwest Colombia department of Putumayo, reports El Espectador. According to authorities, the fire apparently broke out…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General Viviane Morales formally charged on Monday all three directors of the construction conglomerate the Nule Group in the ongoing investigation into a Bogota corruption scandal, Semana reports.…
A landslide in the city of Manizales, in Colombia’s coffee region, has destroyed nine homes, Caracol Radio reported Monday. The disaster occurred in the western part of the city, when…
Peruvian President Alan Garcia announced on Sunday plans for Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Chile to create a new economic bloc, in an interview with El Tiempo. Garcia told the Colombian…
Thirty three people were rescued Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after their boat suffered mechanical failures, media reported. Colombia’s Navy made the rescue after receiving a report that 26 adults…
Colombia’s Navy arrested five on Saturday in an operation that saw the seizure of a boat carrying 400 kilos of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean, El Espectador reported. The boat…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) had filed a case against Colombia before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for failing to prosecute a journalist’s attackers. Colombian journalist Luis Gonzalo “Richard”…