DEA taps Colombian general’s phone
A retired Colombian police general wanted by the U.S. for drug trafficking was wiretapped by local police and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for months, local media reported Friday. A…
A retired Colombian police general wanted by the U.S. for drug trafficking was wiretapped by local police and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for months, local media reported Friday. A…
More than 20 Bogota tourist businesses have signed onto “The Code,” a UNICEF-backed initiative that trains employees to spot signs of child prostitution and report it, the city’s highest tourism…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has approved the government proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cocaine and marijuana for personal use, Colombia media reported Friday. Anyone caught with less…
A new Colombian action film called “La Lectora,” or “The Reader,” will hit theaters August 17, El Espectador newspaper reported Wednesday. Directed by Riccardo Gabrielli, the movie’s trailer starts when…
Colombian security experts met with the president of Honduras Monday to help clean up the country’s corrupt police force, Latin American media reported. The group of experts, led by the…
Bogota will add 3,500 officers to its police force in order to reduce crime in the city, government officials announced Friday. Drawn from police academies throughout the country, the new…
Pope Benedict XVI urged Colombia’s Catholic Church to help the country’s criminals, its poor, displaced and kidnapped. He also called for special help to assist victims of the Andean nation’s recent…
Medellin will host its 22nd annual International Poetry Festival from June 23-30, this year honoring aboriginal people. Beginning at 4PM on Saturday at the Carlos Vieco open air theater, the…
More than 170 groups from at least 15 different musical genres will converge on Medellin and the surrounding towns of Sabaneta and Barbosa Friday and Saturday, June 22 – 23,…