Grenade attack in southwestern Colombia injures 9
Nine people, including seven minors, were injured Monday by a grenade attack in southwestern Colombia. Authorities said the grenade was launched against an army checkpoint in the Pacific port city…
Nine people, including seven minors, were injured Monday by a grenade attack in southwestern Colombia. Authorities said the grenade was launched against an army checkpoint in the Pacific port city…
One year after the signing of Colombia’s Victims Law, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos urged victims to be patient and asked for more time for their compensation and restitution of…
Colombia’s new police chief, Jose Roberto Leon, said Tuesday that conflict victims returning to their land after fleeing to avoid fighting between illegal armed actors and the army could count…
Colombia’s Minister of Defense, Juan Carlos Pinzon, welcomed the possiblity of creating a legal framework for the country’s armed forces to combat drug gangs. “Senator Juan Lozano spoke on the…
Carlos Lozano, editor of the leftist weekly magazine “La Voz,” said “a credible source” revealed there is a $200,000 bounty on his head. Lozano said that Daniel Rendon Herrera, alias…
Authorities captured 15 alleged members of ‘Los Rastrojos,’ Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization, in the northwestern part of the country, according to Caracol Radio. Forty agents raided a tourist cabin…
Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization, “Los Rastrojos,” has placed an ad on the internet in search of a new military chief. According to the ad on job searching website “Zonajobs,”…
Former U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) informant Baruch Vega said that an alliance of drug dealers and guerrillas threatened to kill his sister, journalist Olga Cecilia Vega, news agency Noticias…
“Diego Rastrojo,” one of the top commanders of Colombia’s largest drug gang, “Los Rastrojos,” was arrested in Venezuela Sunday. Rastrojo, whose real name is Diego Perez Henao, was reportedly arrested…