Teen girl suffers violent attack in Medellin school
A 15-year-old girl lost part of her ear during a fight last Friday at a Medellin school, El Tiempo reported Monday. According to the victim’s mother, “during a change of classes,…
A 15-year-old girl lost part of her ear during a fight last Friday at a Medellin school, El Tiempo reported Monday. According to the victim’s mother, “during a change of classes,…
Fresh attacks on a Trans-Andean oil pipeline have occurred in the southwest Colombian department of Nariño, RCN Radio reported Monday. Authorities are yet to confirm who is responsible for the…
The Colombian army on Monday released a video of the moment when they discovered the body of FARC commander “Mono Jojoy.” The video, recorded a day after Mono Jojoy’s camp…
Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state oil and gas company, announced Monday an oil discovery in Colombia’s southwest Putumayo department. The Tinkhana-1 well began drilling operations on November 17, 2010, reaching a depth…
Mediator Piedad Cordoba left Colombia for Brazil Monday to begin an operation to release five FARC hostages. Prior to departing, Cordoba said, “The success of this operation is a prelude to…
Police have captured two former FARC guerrillas who were extorting money from local businesses in Colombia’s south-west Putumayo department, Colombian media reported Monday. After several days of surveillance in Puerto Leguizamo,…
Colombian police announce the arrest of 13 people in operations in the north Colombian Atlantico department. Five were detained for arms trafficking, two for domestic violence, two for drug trafficking,…
The Colombian military will deploy elite troops in the north Colombian department of Cordoba to combat drug trafficking gangs, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday. The Minister of Defense said that…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has thrown out a case brought last year against suspected FARC “front-men,” reported newspaper El Tiempo Saturday. According to the newspaper, the office additionally requested that…