Anti-drug measures spark Bogota prison riot
Three prisoners died and another 25 were injured during a riot at Bogota’s La Modelo prison, sparked by protests over the transfer of an inmate in a bid to control…
Three prisoners died and another 25 were injured during a riot at Bogota’s La Modelo prison, sparked by protests over the transfer of an inmate in a bid to control…
At least eleven people were injured, including three policemen, after an explosive device was launched at the headquarters in Pasto, in the south-west Colombian Nariño department, of “Uribista” presidential candidate Juan…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General will investigate allegations by retired Colonel Pedro Manuel Benavides of a plot to implicate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s brother Santiago Uribe in dealings with Antioquian paramilitaries. Benavides Tuesday…
Porfirio Lobo, the president of Honduras, said Tuesday he is concerned that a change of government in Colombia will jeopardize the security gains achieved during President Alvaro Uribe’s eight year…
Colombia’s Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Tuesday that allegations by former police Major Juan Carlos Meneses that Uribe’s brother, Santiago Uribe, led a paramilitary death squad in the early 1990s,…
Authorities in the north-west Colombian department of La Guajira declared a state of emergency on Tuesday following an outbreak of the infectious disease anthrax in the department’s capital city Riohacha.…
Colombian drug trafficking capos “Los Comba” offered a retired police colonel over $250,000 to implicate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s brother Santiago Uribe in dealings with Antioquian paramilitaries, claims police commissioner…
Colombian civil aviation authorities and U.S. budget carrier Spirit Airlines Monday reached an agreement over the opening of a flight route between the North American city of Fort Lauderdale and…
The Bogota city council Monday expressed concern over the death threats it is receiving from the metropolitan block of neo-paramilitary drug-trafficking organization the “Aguilas Negras.” Councilor Alvaro Argote said that…