Raul Sossa, President of Sintramienergetica, Colombia’s national trade union for mining and energy workers, died in a car accident Thursday, according to local media. The 55-year-old Sossa was traveling in a…
Police have seized a shipment of marijuana valued at $225,000 in central Colombia, Radio Caracol reported Wednesday. The drugs were apparently concealed in a load of pumpkins on a service…
A confrontation between indigenous people and farmers in southwestern Colombia injured fourteen people, Radio Caracol reported Thursday. The clash occurred at midnight on Tuesday and was apparently the result of…
Ashes emitted by Colombia’s volcano Nevado del Ruiz has negatively affected tourism, transport and agriculture in the central-eastern region, local media reported Tuesday. A May 29 earthquake sent plumes of ash…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe asked Mauricio Santoyo, his retired chief of security, to explain drug trafficking charges of drug trafficking made against him in the United States, local media…
Of the 1,383,000 indigenous people in Colombia, at least 55,000 are facing food shortages, local media reported Sunday. According to Gabriel Muyuy Jacanamejoy, the director of the Presidential Program for…
Approximately 2.5 of the 15.4 billion cigarettes sold in Colombia in 2011 were smuggled, according to a study by Colombia’s National Merchant Federation (Fenalco). Guillermo Botero Nieto, President of Fenalco explained…
Investigators have discovered that a leaking pipe caused a landslide that killed 48 people in the city of Manizales in central Colombia in November 2011, local media reported Thursday. According…
Bogota’s mayor Gustavo Petro announced Wednesday that the Colombian capital’s bullfighting ring will be transformed into a center for culture and education, local media reported. The city government ordered Bogota’s Bullfighting…