Colombian soccer player gets year ban for drug use
Colombian soccer authorities have handed down a 12-month suspension to the Deportes Tolima striker caught taking drugs, Colombian media reported on Monday. Wilder Medina failed a drug test in April…
Colombian soccer authorities have handed down a 12-month suspension to the Deportes Tolima striker caught taking drugs, Colombian media reported on Monday. Wilder Medina failed a drug test in April…
Nearly 90,000 Colombians were forced from their homes by violence or intimidation in the first half of 2011, according to a report published on Friday by the Office of Human…
Suspended Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno was escorted from a Bogota court room to La Picota prison on Friday, where he will stay until his trial on corruption charges. After three…
Paramilitary forces have been mobilizing to launch an assault on communities in humanitarian zones in northern Colombia, according to community representatives. Self-Determining Communities, Life, Dignity (CAVIDA) released a statement saying…
Over 100 British politicians, lawyers and unionists have called on the Colombian government to immediately release a human rights defender and trade unionist imprisoned for three years without trial. Liliany…
A former Liberal Party politician convicted of colluding with Pablo Escobar in the murder of a presidential candidate has slammed the Colombian Supreme Court, saying he will launch an international…
On August 26, 1995 Jorge Salcedo boarded a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane leaving Colombia for the United States, a new home, a new name and a new life.…
Authorities have imposed a curfew in a central Colombian municipality in an attempt to regain control of oil worker protests that have forced Pacific Rubiales to shut down production. The…
Escalating violence in central Colombia has left several police and workers injured as protests against oil company Pacific Rubiales spiral out of control. The president of the oil workers union…