Human rights lawyers called the former sub-director of the Colombian intelligence agency DAS to trial for the 1999 killing of comedian and journalist Jaime Garzon, reported El Espectador. Human rights…
Colombian culture, as it intertwines with the country’s natural bio-diversity, will be on display on the National Mall in Washington D.C. for the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The “Colombia: The…
The Obama administration hopes to send trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea to Congress before the August recess, said a U.S. State Department advisor Sunday. “Now it seems…
The world’s largest emerald with a legend to match is displayed for the first time in Colombia, the country where it was found. The 15,000 carat, deep green emerald weighing…
A map published by political news website La Silla Vacia shows the striking similarities between territories formerly controlled by paramilitary groups and areas that today have an emerging criminal gang…
The United States reported that potential cocaine production from 2009 to 2010 increased, while over the past ten years potential cocaine production has decreased by 57%. According to the report…
Piedad Cordoba’s defense lawyer has called for the investigation of former President Alvaro Uribe for the crime of psychological torture of victims of the wiretap scandal. Luis Guillermo Perez, the…
Colombian authorities have arrested 18 members of drug gang “Los Rastrojos” in the cities of Barranquilla, Cali and Popayan, and caught nine others participating in illegal activities from prison, various…
A group of 18 miners from the Norte de Santander department chained themselves in a Bogota square in protest of poor labor conditions and health care in the northeast Colombian…