The arrest of Medellin’s security secretary on charges he protected crime lords implicates a lot of very prominent “good Colombians,” for example presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo. The arrested Gustavo Villegas…
With the arrest of nine alleged members of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), authorities have arrested 223 alleged members of the country’s largest illegal armed group so far…
Scuba divers on Monday continued their search for bodies from a submerged boat in Colombia as authorities turned their attention to what led the tourist ferry to sink with more…
Nine people have been found dead while rescue workers continued searching for 28 missing persons after a tourist ship carrying 170 sank in one of Colombia’s most popular tourist hotspots,…
A multistory tourist boat packed with about 150 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized on a reservoir near Medellin on Sunday, and police in Colombia said three people were dead…
If you want to get a flavor of Medellin, these five must-see sites should leave you with a representative and good taste of Colombia’s second city. Hardly any of our preferences are particularly popular…
Pamphlets signed by the AGC, Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, confirmed the paramilitaries’ apparent attempt to consolidate power in former FARC territories throughout the country. While some 7,000 FARC guerrillas are still in rural camps…
The Guatape water reservoir, one of Colombia’s most visited tourist attractions, is slowly killed by algae and will become poisonous unless local authorities stop procrastinating. The man-made reservoir, located at the bottom of…
A Chilean tourists was rescued by authorities in northwest Colombia on Sunday after a three-hour walk in the forest had become a four-day quest for survival. Chilean Nicole Rios was found…