Bogota residents on average lynch one person every three days, according to a study that blames Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict and inactive police force for the phenomenon of mob justice.
Police have found the body of the fiscal auditor of Colombia’s largest health intermediary stabbed to death in his bathtub, authorities said Tuesday.
Years after being forced to leave office in one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of Colombia’s capital, former Bogota mayor, Samuel Moreno, was convicted for corruption.
A small bomb exploded near Bogota’s private Guaymaral airport on Monday morning, just when a bus transporting members of the Navy passed. Five members of the security forces were injured.
Bogota’s Mayor has requested that citizens pay an additional 10% voluntary tax to tackle what he called a “security emergency” in Colombia’s capital.
Colombian prosecutors are investigating the alleged disappearance of as many as 100 people inside a Bogota prison more than 15 years ago.
Authorities in Bogota arrested 14 policemen on drug dealing charges. According to the the prosecution, the officers and patrolmen offered protection to drug dealers in Colombia’s capital’s most notorious drug district.
Five people were killed in a massacre on Sunday in the impoverished south of Colombia’s capital Bogota, local authorities said Sunday.
A bomb went off early Wednesday morning at the main office in Bogota of SaludCoop, a health intermediary that is being liquidated after gross mismanagement and fraud.