Two key gold mining towns in the north of Colombia went on a massive strike Monday amid government attempts to shut down small mining operations and after the assassination of the local miners’…
Colombia’s Caribbean port city Cartagena stepped up security measures on Sunday amid an apparent violent crime wave and a week from the arrival of numerous world leaders. The city will host the…
A gunfight caused panic in Cartagena’s most popular tourist neighborhood on Wednesday when in broad daylight assassins tried to kill a member of paramilitary successor group AGC, but got caught up in a firefight…
More than 200 rebel commanders gathered from across Colombia to attend a guerrilla conference during which the FARC will dissolve following a peace deal with the government. “Timochenko,” the supreme leader of the organization, and rebel negotiators arrived…
Armed with rocks and sticks, Bogota’s homeless spearheaded mayor riots early Wednesday morning after weeks of accumulating accusations of human rights violations against them. The homeless mob attacked the Hospital and Bicentennial stations of the Transmilenio mass transit…
Colombia rebel group and other illegal organizations are moving into FARC-controlled territory ahead of the guerrilla group’s pending demobilization, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Monday. According to the newspaper, particularly the ELN has been…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos dismissed the possibility of returning to aerial fumigation to combat the skyrocketing production of coca crops in the country. The possibility was raised by Prosecutor…
Colombia’s national government plans to within weeks shut down all operations of taxi service Uber that continues to operate in the country in spite of being banned over a tax and labor dispute.…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, said they will do what they can to facilitate the pending demobilization of the much larger FARC rebel group, but proved pessimistic about its own…