Ex-senator’s ‘parapolitics’ trial kicks off in Cali
The trial of the former president of Colombia´s Congress and leader of the Conservative party, who stands accused of ties to paramilitaries, began Thursday in Cali. Carlos Garcia Orjuela, the…
The trial of the former president of Colombia´s Congress and leader of the Conservative party, who stands accused of ties to paramilitaries, began Thursday in Cali. Carlos Garcia Orjuela, the…
A FARC ambush on a police vehicle in eastern Cauca on Thursday killed two policemen and injured five others. According to RCN radio, the police unit was responding to reports…
The referendum on the constitutionality on President Uribe’s re-election bid will not pass, news website La Silla Vacia has predicted. The nine magistrates who sit on Colombia’s Constitutional Court are…
The impact of Venezuela’s trade embargo against Colombia is increasingly evident in Colombia’s eastern border cities, according to comments by several regional chambers of commerce. The hardest hit industry has…
The state will pay about $103,600 in damages to families forced to abandon their homes after a paramilitary takeover in the Cesar department fourteen years ago. Close to 280 families…
The actors and actresses who star in Colombia’s TV soaps always seem to be on the verge of becoming the next hot thing – but sometimes the heat gets a…
Police in the southwestern Cauca department captured a record 20 tons of marijuana belonging to the FARC, authorities said Wednesday. Thanks to the bust, agents have now effectively dismantled the…
The Virgin Mary continued her habit of unlikely manifestations on mangos, burnt arepas, in buckets and coffee cups with her latest sighting on a smudged wall in a Medellin apartment.…
A recent study found that Colombia’s exports have suffered from Venezuela’s trade embargo, despite the country’s efforts to find new trading partners. According to the Universidad del Rosario in Bogota,…