Shakira: Latin America suffers from colonial history
Pop princess Shakira shares her views on economic underdevelopment, blaming the problems of Latin America on its long history of colonialism and war. The Colombian star told UK newspaper the…
Pop princess Shakira shares her views on economic underdevelopment, blaming the problems of Latin America on its long history of colonialism and war. The Colombian star told UK newspaper the…
Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group ELN is planning an offensive in the Risaralda department, center of the the country’s famous coffee-growing region, local authorities say. According to local leaders, the…
A motorbomb killed two policemen in the south-western Colombian department of Huila on Sunday evening. The incident took place in the town of Palermo, ten miles west of department capital…
Colombia must look for a political solution to the country’s violent conflict to improve the “grave and critical” situation of its indigenous people, says a UN report to be released…
The Colombian government has rejected the recent release of suspected guerillas, and of seventeen soldiers accused of extrajudicial executions. The soldiers and the guerrillas were released after judges ruled that…
Police revealed Friday that at least six different criminal organizations with a combined total of 3,700 members, some of them former paramilitaries, are currently operating in Colombia. Police General Jose…
90% of people displaced by violence in Colombia do not want to return to their homelands, claims a report presented by UNHCR’s representative in Colombia. Jean-Nöel Wetterwald, the UN High…
The Colombian government wants to stop an Argentinean documentary about the FARC from being shown around the world, the country’s foreign minister said on Thursday. In the documentary, which has…
A Colombian judge on Thursday ordered the release of seventeen soldiers implicated in the extrajudicial killings of eleven young men from Soacha in 2008. Defense lawyers petitioned the judge for…