Chief of Colombia National Police asks US to strengthen extradition policy
The chief Colombia’s National Police has called on the United States to toughen penalties on extradited criminals, according to national media.
The chief Colombia’s National Police has called on the United States to toughen penalties on extradited criminals, according to national media.
Courts in central Colombia took additional security measures Friday to prepare for the pending imprisonment of four Colombian drug lords captured earlier in the week, reported national media.
Three decades of coal mining in northern Colombia have had devastating effects in two states in the country’s Caribbean region, as a new documentary shows.
Two soldiers were killed and two civilians injured in an attack by the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC, earlier on Thursday in southeastern Colombia.
Colombia’s army and police were “crucial” for the growth of paramilitary forces in northern Colombia in the 1990s, the Prosecutor’s General’s Office told investigative website Verdad Abierta.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and interim Mayor Rafael Pardo, in an apparent attempt to consolidate power in Bogota after sacking the mayor, announced a series of measures to solve the…
Colombia’s FARC guerrilla group has demanded the suspension of hydroelectric programs and mining royalties, as part of their new proposal for mining and energy policy.
A report released over the weekend by Oxfam International concluded that some 48,915 children under the age of 18 have been victims of sexual violence during the course of Colombia’s…
Some 820,000 Colombians were lifted above the poverty line in 2013, the government statistics agency said Friday. The annual DANE report also showed a growing gap between rich and poor…