Potato farmers strike throughout Colombia
Colombian potato farmers went on strike Tuesday calling on the government to protect the industry from high production costs and new imports.
Colombian potato farmers went on strike Tuesday calling on the government to protect the industry from high production costs and new imports.
An attack attributed to left-wing guerrillas has left one policeman dead and six wounded in northern Colombia, reported local media on Friday. According to police, rebels attacked a police checkpoint…
The first recorded mining accident of 2013 claims the lives of three people in the northeastern Colombia, local media reported on Tuesday. A mine in the town of Paipa in…
Highway construction workers stumbled upon a rich vein of emeralds in Puerto, in Colombia’s northwestern Boyaca department. While drilling on the Pauna-Puerto Boyaca route, construction workers discovered a vein of…
Colombia’s 40th International Culture Festival kicked off in the central Boyaca department Friday. Over four decades, the biggest cultural event of the department has developed and grown into a design…
National health care in Colombia’s central Boyaca department is on the brink of a financial collapse, a representative of the Cubara municipality warned Tuesday. Without a hundred million dollar investment to…
An alleged FARC attack in northern Colombia caused a stop in oil production and left thousands of people without clean water, reported local media Sunday. The explosives attack, which took place…
After an absence of two years, locals from a village in central Colombia were finally able to hold their massive tomato battle, known as “Tomatina” Sunday. Some 20,000 people showed…
A court has closed the preliminary bribery investigation against the son of former President Alvaro Uribe, local media reported Tuesday. Tomas Uribe was accused of intervening in the appointment of…