Authorities in northern Colombia ordered the evacuation of 12 towns located downstream the Hidroituango electric dam after energy company EPM lost control of its construction. The scale of the emergency…
Colombia’s plans to build the country’s largest hydroelectric dam have turned into a disaster. Hundreds of families were displaced over the weekend after a surprise flood. The blocking of the…
As Medellin energy company EPM is rushing to begin operating the Hidroituango hydroelectric dam, two more representatives of the local community were murdered. This means that so far five members…
Twenty firemen, four civilians and the local disaster management chief were injured in an explosion in a burnt-down paint factory in Medellin, according to local authorities. The explosion occurred when…
Medellin energy company EPM insists on flooding a region in northwest Colombia where victims of the armed conflict say hundreds of their loved ones could be buried in mass graves.…
Eight people have been killed in the north of Antioquia province since Sunday as paramilitary groups fight for territorial control of the region in the Bajo Cauca region. The killings stem…
At least eight policemen were killed in an alleged paramilitary attack on a judicial commission investigating land theft in northwest Colombia.
Local authorities and Israel’s embassy in Colombia have reacted furiously after neo-nazis announced a celebration of the birthday of Adolf Hitler in the staunchly conservative city of Medellin. The local…
A singer from the northwest Colombia was hospitalized on Wednesday after allegedly butchering his manager in a drug-induced religious frenzy.