Coca cultivation has declined by more than 50% in Colombia’s north-western Antioquia department since 2008, according to government statistics, newspaper El Tiempo reports. The government program uses aerial spraying and manual…
Six Colombian soldiers were wounded Thursday by an explosion attributed to the FARC guerrilla group in a rural area in the southern department of Huila. The explosion was triggered when…
Hundreds of performing artists flock to Colombia for this year’s Bogota Theater Festival, running October 31 to November 15. Around 500 artists will perform in different forms of theater, ranging…
Forty indigenous people have fled their homes in western Colombia because of violence and are now living in Bogota’s main bus terminal, RCN Radio reports. Among the group are two…
The murder rate is down 26.5% in Pereira in 2010, making it the Colombian city with the highest decline in homicides, according to the mayor. Data provided by the local…
A parcel bomb exploded Wednesday in Vanguardia Airport, in the capital of the southern Colombian Meta department, RCN Radio reports. Meta police commander Marco Tulio Avendaño Lara confirmed that the explosive package…
An abuse scandal builds against the Colombian army’s 5th Brigade as General Alejandro Navas announces that a sub-lieutenant confessed to raping two girls in October. Raul Muñoz Linares confessed to raping…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday presented three new candidates for the office of prosecutor general to the Supreme Court. The candidates are former Defense Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra,…
New York’s White Coffee Corporation sealed a major business deal with a group of Colombian coffee farmers, Diario de Huila reported Wednesday. White Coffee Corporation supplies specialty coffees to businesses…