Eleven of the seventeen candidates for Barranquilla’s 2010 Queen of Queens Pageant were officially registered Thursday at the Casa del Carnaval. For the third year running, Barranquilla’s Festival Foundation is…
The Prosecution has charged former paramilitary chief Uber Banquez alias ‘Juancho Dique’ with six massacres in which 121 people were killed, and the individual killings of six others, news source…
President of the Constitutional Court Nilson Pinilla said Thursday that discussion of the re-election referendum would begin again next year. “Most likely [we will begin] discussion of the bill after…
Human Rights Watch said Thursday that the United States should join the Mine Ban Treaty and participate in a landmark international meeting regarding the banning of antipersonnel mines. The Second…
Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez, today called on the Venezuelan authorities to use their “most efficient assistance” to find twelve people, ten of them Colombian, abducted on Sunday in Venezuela.…
Colombia’s goverment formed a commission Thursday to debate the merits of making public the details of the military bases agreement with the United States. The committee is composed of the…
Colombia’s State Council has suspended the decree decriminalizing abortion in three special circumstances, saying that the ruling needs to be corrected and properly defined, preventing medical clinics from performing abortions…
The President of Colombia’s Supreme Court, Augusto Ibañez, said Thursday that the testimonies of paramilitaries extradited to the United States could result in more arrests of politicians. When asked about…
According to a recent report by the Comptroller General of Colombia, the nation can not meet the necessary conditions to belong to the club of countries that receive the benefits…