Costeño Beach, Colombia’s pocket of Caribbean serenity
Costeño Beach is Colombia’s slice of tranquility for those keen to avoid the swaths of travelers that make their way to nearby tourist hubs on the Caribbean coast. Located just…
Costeño Beach is Colombia’s slice of tranquility for those keen to avoid the swaths of travelers that make their way to nearby tourist hubs on the Caribbean coast. Located just…
The small EPL guerrilla group announced Tuesday that it is open to talks with ELN guerrillas to end a turf war that is affecting almost 150,000 people in northeast Colombia.…
The United Nations is monitoring trials against 30 Colombian social leaders who were arrested on Friday after the Prosecutor General’s Office accused them of ties to ELN rebels. The leaders…
Colombia sent 2,000 soldiers to the conflict-affected region of Catatumbo in a bid to stabilize escalating tensions between illegal armed groups in the northeast of the country. The directive, handed…
The leader of Colombia’s demobilized FARC guerrillas, Rodrigo Londoño, released a letter Saturday urging former combatants for “tranquility” following the arrest of a group ideologue. Londoño, a.k.a. “Timochenko,” told ex-guerrillas…
Colombia’s defense minister on Friday admitted that the armed forces are being investigated for corruption that saw more than $5 million embezzled from defense funds.
Chile has offered to host peace talks between Colombia’s government and the ELN rebel group, according to President Juan Manuel Santos.
The prime suspect in a drug trafficking case implicating the ideologue of Colombia’s demobilized FARC guerrilla group has disappeared from the US prison information system, according to local media. Marlon…
Colombian military officials stole $730,000 worth of food intended for soldiers in high-risk missions, according to Caracol Radio. The alleged embezzlement scandal is the second that is revealed this week…