Senator, TV actress in Twitter fight
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba decreased her chances of winning a second nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by publicly bickering with actress Diana Angel over Twitter. The trouble started when…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba decreased her chances of winning a second nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by publicly bickering with actress Diana Angel over Twitter. The trouble started when…
Colombia’s inspector general on Wednesday upheld a 12-year public office ban against former Interior Minister Sabas Pretelt de la Vega. The politician was banned in August from holding public office…
A man was arrested in Bogota after 12 years on the run for beating and biting a 2-year-old girl to death in 1998. Carlos Julio Giraldo Figueredo was arrested Wednesday…
A Cesna 206 plane traveling from Medellin crashed in San Antonio del Prado, in the Antioquia department, killing all five people on board on Wednesday. The aircraft was traveling from Medellin to Vigia del Fuerte,…
The governor of the indigenous community Resguardo Gran Mallama in the department of Nariño was rescued by members of her community after she was kidnapped on Monday. Ana Pastora Belacazar…
Colombia has announced that the country supports Honduras’ requested intervention in a maritime border dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua. Colombia said it recognizes that Honduras has “legal interests” in the…
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday added Guillermo Leon Valencia Cossio, ex-head of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Medellin, to a list of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers banned from doing…
Violence in the department of Cordoba has been increasing, according to a report from Verdad Abierta. Numerous labor and union leaders, as well as those fighting for land to be…
Vice President Angelino Garzon on Thursday asked the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to appeal to armed groups in Colombia to release hostages and stop using landmines. Colombia…