43 youths flee Bogota prison after arson and riot
After setting fire to their dormitories, 43 minors were able to flee from a youth detention center in the south of Bogota, according to local media.
After setting fire to their dormitories, 43 minors were able to flee from a youth detention center in the south of Bogota, according to local media.
The number of gangs in Bogota has exceeded 1,300 while the city government cuts funds aimed at reducing crime, a local councilman said.
Hundreds of people protested in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Wednesday to demand “freedom for bullfighting.”
Colombian police have arrested ten people for duping underprivileged mothers into working as prostitutes in China, Singapore, and Panama, where they were held as indentured servants.
Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr announced on Wednesday that his band will be playing in Colombia while on tour through Latin America in February and March of 2015.
Colombia’s capital Bogota is becoming increasingly bicycle-friendly and now has 13 stations of its mass transit bus system equipped with free bicycle parking garages.
Three girls were able to escape a Bogota-based sex trafficking group that is alleged to be holding 20 more minors captive for sexual exploitation, local authorities said Monday. Three suspects…
A Bogota attorney on Monday said he will sue the city’s mayor over plans to build homes for poor people in some of the capital’s most expensive neighborhoods.
Colombia’s capital Bogota is planning to carry out social housing projects in some of the city’s most expensive neighborhood in an attempt to curb social and economic segregation, the administration announced…