Obama may participate in Summit of the Americas opening ceremony
Barack Obama might swear in a newly restored plaza in Cartagena as part of the opening events for the Summit of the Americas, to take place in the city April…
Barack Obama might swear in a newly restored plaza in Cartagena as part of the opening events for the Summit of the Americas, to take place in the city April…
Colombian congress officials expressed concern that legislative procedures will be slowed should the parapolitics trial of former Prosector General Luis Camilo Osorio go ahead. The Speaker of the House of…
Colombian criminals wanted for extradition should serve sentences at home before being sent abroad, says the country’s Justice Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra. Some Colombian prisoners extradited to the U.S. are…
The Colombian Government has offered to train West African countries to combat organized crime, particularly drug trafficking and money laundering, reported local media Tuesday. Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria…
Colombian union members condemned the European Union’s endorsement of a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia Tuesday, citing violence against labor unionists in the country. Carlos Olaya Rodriguez and Jorge Mejia…
A wildlife-themed adventure park in central Colombia is planning to build the two largest statues of Jesus in the world by Easter 2013, local media reported Tuesday. The entire project…
Illegal gold mining is polluting water sources in northern Colombia, reported Colombian newspaper El Heraldo Monday. According to the report, illegal mining has contaminated water sources in the northern department…
Colombia’s coffee region, known as the Coffee-Growers Axis or Coffee Triangle, will now be called the Coffee Cultural Landscape. According to Vice Minister of Tourism Oscar Rueda the name-change is…
A Colombian judge on Friday overturned the international arrest warrant against the country’s ex-peace commissioner, Luis Carlos Restrepo, issued for his alleged role in the 2006 false demobilization of a…