‘Los Paisas’ gang leader killed
The head of drug trafficking gang “Los Paisas” has been killed by DIJIN, the intelligence branch of the Colombian police, according to El Espectador. Cesar Augusto Torres Lujan, alias “Mono…
The head of drug trafficking gang “Los Paisas” has been killed by DIJIN, the intelligence branch of the Colombian police, according to El Espectador. Cesar Augusto Torres Lujan, alias “Mono…
According to the Secretary General of the National Indigenous Organization in Colombia (ONIC), there have been more than 100 assassinations of indigenous people so far in 2010. Luis Fernando Arias…
Several Colombian indigenous communities on Wednesday signed their own “Kyoto Protocol,” an agreement to preserve their cultures and the ecosystems they live in. More than 400 people participated in the…
A number of simultaneous mortar and bomb attacks on several military posts in the south-west Colombian department of Cauca injure eight soldiers on Wednesday. The attacks, allegedly carried out by guerrilla group…
Some 120 children will take part in the First Gastronomic Mini Congress in the south-western Colombian city of Popayan, which kicks off Friday. The local children, all between 6 and…
The governor of Cauca crowned Annie Violeta Bergonzi as the south-western department’s representative at the 2010 Miss Colombia beauty pageant in November. The 22-year-old Bergonzi has dual French-Colombian citizenship and…
At least 70 towns in the Cauca department close to Colombia’s Pacific coast were left without electricity after a terrorist attack on a hydroelectric plant. Colonel Danilo Murcia Caro of…
Coffee production in Colombia’s southern Cauca department is expected to increase 29 percent in 2010 from a year ago as the region’s renovated coffee trees starting to bear fruit, a…
More than 7,500 Colombians have been displaced by the country’s armed conflict so far in 2010, according to a United Nations report, which says that “serious gaps [in] the protection…