Posted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 25, 2012 | News
Two women working on an oil pipeline in northeastern Colombia have been kidnapped, local media reported Tuesday. Gunmen seized Elida Alfonso, a community radio show host, and Gina Uribe, an environmental engineer, from their...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 25, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with a U.S. delegation next week to discuss security, counternarcotics operations and the economy, local media reported Wednesday. The country’s foreign minister and...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 23, 2012 | Culture
Famed Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona will visit Colombia to promote his first album as an independent artist. Often called El Animal Nocturno—the Nocturnal Animal—after the album that brought him public acclaim, the...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 23, 2012 | News
In Colombia, the greatest threat to the endangered jaguar is no longer poachers–it’s the palm oil tree, local media reported Monday. South America’s largest wild cat is not the first animal to lose out to the...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 20, 2012 | News
Colombia’s drug cartels have special assault teams stationed throughout Central America, and along the coast of Honduras in particular, the Nicaraguan navy reported Friday. Marvin Corrales, the head of Nicaragua’s...
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