Three soldiers have been sentenced to 40 years in prison for murdering two minors and reporting them as members of a criminal gang, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. The judge found Jamie Alonso…
The Inspector General’s Office on Monday appealed against the Superior Tribunal of Bogota’s decision to sentence former paramilitary Jorge Ivan Laverde Zapata, alias “El Iguano,” to only eight years in…
Bogota rebrands itself with a new logo which is intended to represent the Colombian capital as a top tourist destination, El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The agency Zea Misty Wells &…
Colombia will not attend the Noble Peace Price ceremony in Norway which honors jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. China has written to foreign diplomats in Oslo urging them to boycott…
Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno Rojas said that 10,000 people have been affected by floods and landslides in Colombia’s capitol this year. The most-affected areas are the neighborhoods in the hills…
The Superior Court of the Justice and Peace process orders the state to investigate whether demobilized paramilitaries are hiding funds abroad, El Tiempo reported Monday. President of the Reparation Commission…
Construction on Colombia’s main airport El Dorado in Bogota is scheduled to be finished in 2014. Juan Pulido manager of OPAIN, the company that manages the airport, said that on…
Three former congressmen are under investigation for their alleged roles in the corruption scandal at Colombia’s drug enforcement agency, according to newly elected Prosecutor General Viviane Morales. The National Narcotics…
Two policemen were killed and at least three were injured in an alleged FARC attack against a police patrol in Tame, Arauca. Several armed guerrillas attacked a police car patrolling…