Italian captured in northern Colombia on child trafficking charges
An Italian man was arrested this week in Colombia’s Caribbean coast city Cartagena for the alleged crime of trafficking two children.
An Italian man was arrested this week in Colombia’s Caribbean coast city Cartagena for the alleged crime of trafficking two children.
Properties of Colombia’s late “Queen of Cocaine,” Griselda Blanco, are worth over $500 million dollars, according to the DEA.
Women’s rights groups in Colombia are pressing their country’s government to investigate cases of sexual violence committed by the military and its now-defunct paramilitary allies.
The mayor of Buenaventura, Colombia’s main port city and one of the poorest cities in the country, has been arrested on corruption charges.
A new oil field has been discovered in central Colombia by one of Chile’s larger oil and gas companies.
Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-run oil company, has agreed to a partnership with Japan’s Nippon Oil to explore Brazil’s Amazon basin for possible oil reserves.
President Juan Manuel Santos appointed a former senator to serve as Colombia’s consul in Chicago in spite of allegations he took part in a major embezzlement scheme in Bogota.
Carlos Lehder, famed former drug lord and co-founder of the infamous Medellin Cartel, has asked President Juan Manuel Santos to request repatriation to Colombia.
Atletico Nacional told US real estate mogul and presidential candidate Donald Trump that the soccer club is not for sale after Trump had expressed interest in purchasing the Medellin side.