A former governor of a southeastern department in Colombia was sentenced to 90 months in prison for ties with paramilitaries, reported Colombian press Tuesday. El Especatador reports that the Supreme Court sentenced the former...
Read MoreA staff member of the Japanese embassy in Colombia reportedly embezzled almost $19,000 since 2007. Japanese news agencies report that a 52-year-old Japanese citizen embezzled ¥1.55 million, or about $19,000, from the Japanese...
Read MoreA congressman demands demolition of a statue that pays homage to paramilitaries in Cordoba, a department recently hit by neo-paramilitary violence. Congressman Ivan Cepeda made a request via the right of constitutional appeal to...
Read MoreA bus carrying 36 passengers crashed early Tuesday morning in northeast Colombia leaving six dead and 28 injured. The bus left the city of Bucaramanga in the northeast department of Santander at 8:00 pm Monday to the city of...
Read MoreHotel owners on Colombia’s Caribbean town of Capurgana are worried that the lights might go out on business if the town’s power outages continue. The small town of Capurgana, located in the Gulf of Uraba on the...
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