Shakira, Juanes donate to flood victims
Shakira and Juanes donated personal items to help the Colombian Red Cross raise money for the victims of the country’s harsh rainy season, Semana reports. Shakira donated the harmonica she used…
Shakira and Juanes donated personal items to help the Colombian Red Cross raise money for the victims of the country’s harsh rainy season, Semana reports. Shakira donated the harmonica she used…
Transparency for Colombia, the Colombian chapter of Transparency International, on Thursday released its 2008-2009 Departmental and Municipal Transparency Indexes which measure corruption in Colombia’s local government bodies. The indexes measure the…
Oswaldo Ochoa Garcia, a lawyer representing demobilized paramilitaries, was assassinated in downtown Bogota, W Radio reported Thursday. Ochoa was travelling in a taxi when two gunmen on a motorcycle shot…
Police arrested businessman Felipe Sierra, an alleged associate of Colombian drug trafficker “Don Mario,” in Medellin Thursday morning, reports W Radio. Earlier in November, the Supreme Court ordered Sierra and…
The Colombian capital of Bogota began a project to make cinema accessible for blind and deaf people. Funded by the local government, the Accessible Cinema project uses specialized subtitles and…
Medellin vandals beheaded a statue of the Holy Virgin Mary after stealing it from a shrine in the southern Poblado neighborhood, a local newspaper reports. According to newspaper El Colombiano,…
Three soldiers were killed, two were injured and three soldiers went missing in clashes with FARC guerrillas in Colombia’s southwestern Huila department, reports El Espectador. The soldiers took part in…
Colombia and Chile will form a strategic alliance for bilateral development and will intensify trade between the two countries and Peru, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Chilean counterpart…
The Ministry of Education agreed to investigate complaints about a pornographic web site allegedly connected to Medellin’s Metropolitan Institute of Technology, CaracolRadio reports on Wednesday. According to Medellin’s Mayor Alonso…