24,000 adolescents involved in urban gangs: Caracol Radio
Some 24,000 young men and chidlren in Colombia’s three largest cities are member of criminal gangs, a study quoted by Caracol Radio revealed Friday. The researchers warn for an increasing…
Some 24,000 young men and chidlren in Colombia’s three largest cities are member of criminal gangs, a study quoted by Caracol Radio revealed Friday. The researchers warn for an increasing…
Colombian authorities Friday suspended the repair works of one runway of Bogota’s international airport El Dorado due to unacceptable delays in flights. “The works will be suspended until things normalize…
I love books and I hate crowds. I went to the Bogota book fair hoping to see more of the former than of the latter, but picking a holiday was…
Singer-actress Hilary Duff brought her Blessings in a Backpack program to Colombia Friday to distribute 3,000 knapsacks of food to poor children in a school district south of the capital…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon inaugurated the International Book Fair of Bogota Wednesday evening. The fair takes place until August 23. “More Mexico in Colombia,…
Bogota police barricaded a building with about 300 displaced inside on Tuesday. The refugees, who were moved from Parque Tercer Milenio to the building by Bogota’s administration in May, had…
The number of contract murders in Colombia’s capital Bogota is increasing. Sixty-five people have been assassinated by “sicarios” this year, seven more than in the same period in 2008, say…
A suspected Bogota child abuser died of a heart attack while being lynched by his neighbors, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The inhabitants of Britalia, a neighborhood in the south…
Bogota’s public transit system Transmilenio Thursday introduced five new buses that are the longest worldwide. The red buses have a capacity of 260 passengers. The authorities hope to reduce the…