Seven people were indiscriminately murdered in a rural area between the municipalities Uramita and Peque, in the west of the central Colombian Antioquia department. The department’s government secretary, Andres Julian…
Colombia’s President-Elect Juan Manuel Santos announced Thursday that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to support Colombia’s entry into the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). “One of the projects…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday that Ecuador’s seizure of a drug trafficking submarine at a jungle shipyard in a border zone is thanks to information that Bogota authorities gave…
Colombia’s President-elect Juan Manuel Santos named former Treasury Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar as the minister for agriculture in his incoming government, following his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy…
A well-known Colombian shaman from the Huila department’s capital city of Neiva performed a ceremony to exorcise an evil spirit that had supposedly possessed a 14-year-old girl.
Two Colombian police agents who were present at the Antioquia nightclub massacre which killed eight people were fired, and their presence at the disco will be investigated, Colonel Alejandro Bustamante told…
A total of 191 FARC and ELN guerrillas demobilized in June, according to the Colombian Defense Ministry’s Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), Efe reports. Of the demobilized…
The Dutch government, through its Ministry for Development Cooperation, will donate over $1.5 million to the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Mission to Support the Peace Process (MAPP) in Colombia, which…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Tuesday that his nation plans extradite to the U.S. Carlos Alberto Renteria Mantilla alias “Beto Renteria”, the head of Colombia’s Norte de Valle cartel, who…