Authorities have confirmed the deaths of eight minors as the result of a school bus accident in the Nariño department in southwest Colombia. Civil Defense Commander Coronel Mario Orozco informed…
Colombia defined regulations to clarify the legal status of low-level demobilized members of illegal armed groups, stipulating that they will be sanctioned but not jailed, local media reported Tuesday. President…
A second Colombian soldier has died in Afghanistan, in the explosion of an antipersonnel mine, local media reported Tuesday. Gustavo Rios Ordoñez, a 25-year-old Colombian from Pereira, died in the…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos thanked the U.S. Congress for agreeing to move forward discussions about the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) on Tuesday. “I thank the North American Congress,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos referred to those accusing the government of paying off the FARC in “Operation Jaque” as “useful idiots” for feeding in to the guerrilla organization’s propaganda.…
Freed from ties to the Green Party, former Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus will once again join the pool of candidates for the capital city’s mayoral race. According to newspaper El…
Colombia has released COP 10,000 and 20,000 notes with raised braille symbols to help blind people distinguish between the two, the country’s central bank reported Tuesday. According to the central…
Bogota metropolitan police have identified and dismantled 203 small criminal gangs operating in the capital city this year, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday. The criminal bands that have been found…
Famous Colombian Vallenato singer Diomedes Diaz and his family have been hospitalized with pneumonia in the northern department of Cesar, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday. The singer was brought to…