Residents of Colombia’s tourist city Cartagena gave their mayor an ovation on Monday after he treated the city council to an expletive-laden tirade over corruption that has crippled healthcare. Mayor…
Three beaches on Colombia’s Caribbean coast were closed on Sunday as their popularity overwhelmed local authorities. Authorities in the Bolivar and Magdalena provinces decided to restrict access to the popular…
For the first time since Colombia’s FARC guerrillas demobilized and became a political party in 2017, one of its members was elected mayor on Sunday. The election of Guillermo Torres,…
The political dynasty that has controlled Colombia’s port city Cartagena as if it were family property is in trouble after the family patriarch was recorded explaining how to get rich…
A community leaders who was taking part in local elections in northern Colombia has been assassinated, the local governor confirmed on Monday. The reported murder of Luis Eduardo Caldera, who…
One of Colombia’s most prominent victim representatives has been told that the next child who will be crying over his mother’s dead body will be hers. Yirley Velasco, who survived…
Student protests that were held on Thursday turned violent in Cartagena and Medellin amid tensions that followed a terrorist attack on police in Bogota. Five student leaders were arrested. Student…
Authorities in Colombia’s tourist hotspot Cartagena said Monday that they have rescued 49 women who were forced to work in the Caribbean city’s sex industry. A raid of three establishments…