7 suspects arrested in ‘ELN-funded’ Bogota bombings probe
Colombia’s police on Tuesday announced it has arrested seven men believed to be responsible for a recent series of ELN-supported bomb attacks in the capital Bogota.
Colombia’s police on Tuesday announced it has arrested seven men believed to be responsible for a recent series of ELN-supported bomb attacks in the capital Bogota.
Bogota’s city council angrily suspended a debate on the city’s “failed” public security policy on Wednesday after the chief of police announced he would not be assisting in the debate.
Colombia’s capital Bogota has suffered seven bomb attacks so far this year. The last attack took place on Wednesday when a bomb exploded, injuring five policemen and two civilians injured.
In the light of rising violent crime indicators in Colombia’s capital Bogota, the city’s security council is carrying out heated debates this week and is set to propose concrete solutions in the week to come.
Partly due to spectacular drops in homicides in Medellin and Cali, Colombia’s National Police said that 2014 was the country’s least violent year in three decades.
Exactly on the day Mayor Gustavo Petro denied the presence of neo-paramilitary groups in Bogota, the city’s public television station received death threats from neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras.”
The number of gangs in Bogota has exceeded 1,300 while the city government cuts funds aimed at reducing crime, a local councilman said.
The lawyers of two Colombian taxi drivers accused of killing a DEA agent in the capital Bogota are seeking to overthrow testimonies given to agents of the DEA and the FBI claiming they…
Robbery rates have nearly doubled in Colombia’s capital Bogota over the past few years while the city at the same time is failing to keep the homicide rate from going up.