Bogota has traditionally enjoyed lower homicide rates than other major cities in Colombia. However, street crime in the capital is among the country’s highest. Victimization in Bogota Bogota’s victimization rate…
Indigenous protests in Colombia’s capital turned violent on Wednesday amid allegations that 21 refugees have died in Bogota over the past year. According to the Bogota Police Department, 14 policemen,…
At least 20 women and children were injured when riot police attacked indigenous protesters in Colombia’s capital Bogota, the local ombudsman said Thursday. Riot police unit ESMAD attacked the protesters…
Police in Colombia’s capital Bogota suffered two attacks with explosives this month. The second attack killed at least one 12-year-old and injured 10 people the Arborizadora Alta neighborhood on Saturday,…
Bogota police used bus terminals in Colombia’s capital as illegal detention centers during protests last year, according to opposition politicians. The accusation made by two Bogota city council members was…
The mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota called for stricter border checks on Thursday to slow down spreading of the Omnicron coronavirus variant. Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez called for compulsory Covid…
Journalists in Cali and robbers in Medellin ended up wearing bullet proof vests that Colombia’s Police was supposed to destroy. Bogota authorities announced an investigation on Monday after the arrest…
Colombia’s mass media have been spreading disinformation over an allegedly growing public security crisis in the capital Bogota that is contradicted by local security statistics. Weekly Semana, which is close…