Colombia to shut its land borders for presidential election weekend
As a security measure for Colombia’s presidential elections on Sunday, the country’s land borders will be off-limits this weekend, national media reported on Friday.
As a security measure for Colombia’s presidential elections on Sunday, the country’s land borders will be off-limits this weekend, national media reported on Friday.
Colombia and Ecuador have agreed on a marine border, after years of uncertainty, reported Radio Caracol Friday. The border will run through the zone where mouth of the Mataje…
Colombia and Peru have come together to fight organized crime in their border region, local media reported Thursday. Colombian Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzon and his counterpart in Peru, Alberto…
The defense ministers of Colombia and Ecuador on Monday announced they will jointly increase efforts to fight illegal armed groups that operate in the two countries’ shared border region. Colombian…
The Venezuelan government will replace a bridge in the Colombian town of Tibu that was allegedly destroyed by guerrillas this weekend, Colombia’s defense minister said Thursday. The bridge, that connected…
Colombia’s international agenda has lately been intensely focused on security: helping other Latin American countries in the fight against drug trafficking and criminal activity, striking blow after blow against illegal…
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group the FARC has permanent bases in Brazil, a Sao Paulo newspaper reported on Sunday, basing its allegations on leaked police reports. According to O Estado de…
Indigenous journalist Mauricio Moreno Medina, the founding member of a community radio station for the Pijao indigenous people, was murdered Sunday by unknown assailants in his home, in the town of Ortega…