4 dead, 2 injured in Colombia gold mine collapse
A landslide in southwest Colombia on Tuesday left four miners dead and another two injured, reported local media. Heavy rains in the southwest municipality of Buenaventura on Tuesday caused a…
A landslide in southwest Colombia on Tuesday left four miners dead and another two injured, reported local media. Heavy rains in the southwest municipality of Buenaventura on Tuesday caused a…
The child of Colombian singer Shakira will be born in Catalonia, according to the soon-to-be soccer star father Gerard Pique. “My son will be born in Catalonia, I’m sure he…
The recently captured Daniel “El Loco” Barrera, one of Colombia’s most notorious drug lords, has been extradited from Venezuela, according to newswire EFE. Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday handed Barrera over…
President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday that any peace talks with Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), must be discreet. “The worst thing you can do…
Ex-Colombian President Alvaro Uribe impeded an operation to capture a top FARC guerrilla in Venezuela, claimed a former defense minister. “President Uribe prevented me from extracting Ivan Marquez from Venezuela,…
Colombia’s congress has expressed its displeasure with the recent announcement that the peace talks with FARC guerrillas have been postponed four days. “We did not like the postponement of the…
One of Colombia’s former presidents paid for the extraofficial military training of paramilitary death squads, Israeli mercenary Yair Klein told a Colombian court Tuesday. Klein, convicted in Colombia for training…
The peace process between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas has been postponed until November 19, according to a government press release Tuesday. “On Monday 19 in Havana, Cuba, negotiators…
Activists representing Colombia’s rural communities have implored European Union (E.U.) lawmakers to reconsider ratifying the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two economies, according to news-wire EFE Tuesday. Human rights…