Colombian disaster and relief agencies met Monday to prepare hurricane contingency plans for Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The meeting included state and non-profit organizations who reviewed existing emergency plans, identified vulnerable…
Colombia’s defense minister said Monday he could neither confirm nor rule out the death of a FARC commander during Sunday’s raid on a guerrilla arms factory, El Pais reported. Reports…
Two suspected FARC guerrillas were killed and one was captured Sunday in the central Colombian department of Huila. Authorities said that the fighters, one male and one female, were suspected…
A Colombian bishop who had served as an intermediary between drug trafficking organizations and the government was transferred by the Vatican to a different seat Sunday, El Meridiano reported.…
The Prosecutor General’s Office accused the former director of Colombia’s tax agency of negligence during a public hearing Friday, El Espectador reported. Nestor Diaz, director of DIAN during the Uribe…
Six soldiers and two police officials have been detained for murdering civilians and reporting them as guerrillas in “false positive” killings Friday, CM& Noticia reported. The men were accused of…
The Colombian Carribbean city of Barranquilla crowned a new carnival queen Friday as it prepares for next year’s festivities. 22-year-old Andrea Jaramilo Char was selected as the 2012 Barranquilla carnival…
New information has been released that suggests the Uribe government in 2009 already knew about corruption by officials at the Colombian tax authority DIAN that according to the current administration…
The 27th Roldanillo Women’s Poetry Meeting began Friday in southern Colombia. The meeting features many of Colombia’s prominent women poets who will perform their poetry throughout the festival. The festival…