Colombian President Alvaro Uribe called on Medellin authorities to work together to battle growing crime in Colombia’s second largest city. Uribe Sunday met with members of the security forces to…
Colombian Vallenato legend Rafael Escalona has been taken to hospital, local media reported on Friday. He is in bad health but stable. According to Astrid Escalona, the daughter of the…
Colombia remains on the black list of human rights violations, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) reported on Friday. The IACHR said that it is aware of the complex…
The FARC forcibly recruited more than 100 children in the Tolima department, Central Colombia, the local ombudsman said Friday. After being notified of the recruitment, the Ombudsman’s Office sent a…
The United States will continue Plan Colombia in 2010. While local media report a reduction of 33 million dollars, Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos says that the US financial…
Colombian actor Roberto Urbina goes for Hollywood. He will play a role in the American series “Grey’s anatomy” and “Heroes”. Urbina previously acted in movies like ‘La fiesta de su…
Colombian authorities arrested three members of the army, including a major, for their alleged involvement in four ‘false postives’. Major Mauricio Ordoñez Galindo, Captain Osward Javier Arias Martínez and Lieutenant…
The FARC is one of the world’s major drug cartels, Colombia’s Defense Minister, Juan Manuel Santos, said Thursday. “Today, the FARC is one of the major drug cartels in the…
67 members of the Colombian security forces have been convicted for committing ‘false positives’. In the last three weeks alone, 46 members of the security forces were sent to jail…