Guerrilla groups such as the FARC and ELN intend to provoke violence during student protests at national universities, according to Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS reported Caracol Radio Wednesday. Intelligence officials…
In a new development in drug smuggling techniques Colombian police found cocaine base baked into loaves of bread in the Bolivar department, El Espectador reported Monday. After searching a suspected…
Extradited paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso has said the Uribe administration invited drug dealers to the negotiation table during the AUC demobilization process. In an interview with El Tiempo from a…
A grenade attack by a suspected drug gang left seven injured in a municipality 180 miles north of Medellin, central Colombia, RCN Radio reported Monday. Two unknown individuals on a…
The drug kingpin Walid Makled, currently incarcerated in Colombia, might have knowledge about the FARC and Hezbollah operating in Venezuela In a television interview from La Picota prison in Bogota,…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s trip to Colombia was postponed until April 9 because of technical problems on the head of state’s airplane. “President Hugo Chavez had a problem with his…
Emerging criminal gangs, with an estimated 4,200 members across the country, could account for 40% of assasinations in Colombia, according to the Minister of Interior and Justice, newspaper El Espectador…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s flight to Cartagena, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, has been delayed due to technical difficulties. The president is now expected to arrive in the Colombian coastal city between…
Shakira and the Inter-American Development Bank have teamed up to rebuild a 98-year-old girls school destroyed in the Haitian earthquake last year, reported Haiti Libre on Friday. During a ceremony…