The US State Department announced that William Brownfield, formerly ambassador to Bogota and now a top anti-drug official, will visit Colombia on February 10 to demonstrate support for security in the region. Brownfield is...
Read MoreLess than one month after the murders of two Bogota students in Cordoba, two more students have been killed by criminals in the area. On Wednesday, two students were murdered in the rural area of Cerete in the Cordoba department...
Read MoreThe national homicide rate for January dropped by 12% over the same month last year, reports National Police Chief General Oscar Naranjo. “When we closed figures for the month of January, the reduction of homicides is 12%,...
Read MorePresident Juan Manuel Santos rejects truckers’ threat to strike and calls for dialogue to reach a solution, newspaper El Colombiano reported Wednesday. “The government, faced with such threats, will not...
Read MoreColombia’s interior and justice minister will meet with the director of prison authority INPEC to discuss reforming the scandal-hit penitentiary system. Newspaper El Tiempo reported Wednesday that Minister German Vargas...
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