Medellin, which convincingly voted ‘No’ to peace with the FARC in a referendum only five days earlier, massively took to the street to demand peace on Friday. The march was…
An Australian man who had been living in Medellin for less than a year was found dead outside Colombia’s second largest city, local media reported. The lifeless body of the 49-year-old man,…
Canadian company Gran Colombia Gold said Wednesday it will suspend contracts of some 1,000 miners while paramilitary successor group AGC threatened to assassinate those who are blocking the company’s activity in northern Colombia. The…
Two key gold mining towns in the north of Colombia went on a massive strike Monday amid government attempts to shut down small mining operations and after the assassination of the local miners’…
With the same hands and perseverance that delivered him silver at the Olympics, Colombia boxer Yuberjen Martinez is now constructing the home for his mother he dreamed to earn in Rio de Janeiro. “The money…
A shallow, 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled residents of Colombia’s second-largest city of Medellin on Tuesday night in the country’s biggest tremor in over a year. Colombia’s natural disaster office said…
Top commanders of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC are touring the country to meet with victims and beg forgiveness for war crimes committed by the guerrillas. On Monday, the rebel leaders met with…
An army colonel and a captain were sentenced to 50 years in prison this Tuesday for executing two men whose murders were later fraudulently filed as combat kills. Such extrajudicial…
The problem of organised crime-related violence is deteriorating in Colombia’s second largest city Medellin as authorities continue to find bodies bearing the marks of a gang-style executions. The discovery of…