FARC rebel receives 60-year sentence for terrorist attack
A court Wednesday sentenced a member of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group the FARC to 60 years in prison for a 2008 bomb attack that left six civilians dead and 84…
A court Wednesday sentenced a member of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group the FARC to 60 years in prison for a 2008 bomb attack that left six civilians dead and 84…
Almost 95% of murders of trade unionists in Colombia have gone unpunished, the United Nations revealed Tuesday. Between 1984 and 2011, 2,800 unionists were killed, 216 were disappeared, 83 were…
A northern Colombian municipality has been awarded compensation for the army’s failure to adequately provide protection from the FARC during instability in the 1990s, reported daily El Tiempo Monday. Colombia’s highest…
Colombian rescue workers recovered the bodies of nine victims killed in a tragic mining accident. At least 60 rescuers worked to pump water out of the mine which flooded Thursday.…
Authorities recovered the bodies of at least four miners trapped after their illegal coalmine flooded in northwest Colombia. Relief agencies reported that the bodies were found 171 meters below ground…
Rescue workers have been able to release one of nine miners who were trapped in a coalmine in northwestern Colombia after their illegal mine flooded, newspaper La Vanguardia reports. Local…
A cousin of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was injured in a botched kidnapping Tuesday. The cousin, Gabriel Posado, was allegedly kidnapped by four men and one woman on the…
An anti-narcotics police unit was attacked in northern Colombia, reported local media Wednesday. Medellin police told Colombia Reports, six police were injured and one died on the way to a…
Colombia’s Antioquia department, nationally renowned for its beautiful women, Saturday elected its ugliest citizen; a 42-year old street vendor from the town of Marinilla. The winner of the Ugly Pageant,…