Not even the military could prevent locals from the small town of Jerico, Antioquia, from expelling South African gold miner AngloGold Ashanti and enforce a local ban on mining. The…
Victims of the disastrous Hidroituango dam project on Tuesday will be removed from their refugee shelter while Medellin energy company EPM refuses to compensate damages or help them find homes…
A town in a war-torn region in northern Colombia has been left without a hospital after the killing of a doctor spurred his colleagues to flee on Sunday. Doctor Cristian…
Medellin energy company EPM on Saturday evacuated more than 100 workers from its disaster-ridden Hidroituango dam after finding water was seeping through the dam that has been at risk of…
Paramilitary group “Los Caparrapos” operates in the north of Colombia, specifically in Bajo Cauca, a gold-rich region in the Antioquia province. The group was initially formed in 1996 by “Macaco,”…
Jerico is one of the quaint colonial towns near Medellin that is just beginning to blossom as a travel destination at 35 kilometers from the capital of Antioquia. The town…
The once bustling streets of the Remolino neighborhood of Puerto Valdivia, a small town next to the Cauca River in the Antioquia province in northern Colombia, were empty. It had…
Colombia’s prosecution said that negligence in the construction of Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam is threatening life around the country’s second largest river. Colombia’s Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez presented a…
Communities living below Colombia’s largest dam project have been warned that heavy rainfall during the ongoing rainy season increases the risk of a Hidroituango dam wall collapse. The town of…