Colombia’s finance minister announced Thursday that seven public power companies will be sold in the departments of Boyaca, Meta, Huila, and Nariño. Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry said that the…
Two miners died and another three were saved by rescue teams Thursday from a collapsed mine shaft outside the town of Socota in the Boyaca department. According to local media,…
Colombian authorities have captured FARC guerrilla Carlos Alonso Vasquez, allegedly responsible for the 2002 assassination of 11 members of the military in Boyaca, various media reported Wednesday. Alias “Wilder,” or…
The world’s largest emerald with a legend to match is displayed for the first time in Colombia, the country where it was found. The 15,000 carat, deep green emerald weighing…
The mayor and priest of the central-Colombian town of Toca was caught driving drunk at a police check near his town. To make things worse, police accused the mayor of…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that the La Niña phenomenon is approaching its end, although intensified storms in Colombia over the weekend affected 7,000 new victims. The latest…
Various parts of north and central Colombia continue to be seriously affected by new incidents of landslides and flooding caused by the extreme rainy season. A number of recent occurrences…
A 200 meter avalanche of mud and rock buried a father and his son while they slept on Tuesday night in the department of Boyaca, northern Colombia, one of the…
Five soldiers have been injured in a grenade explosion at a military housing base near the town of Sogamoso, in the central Colombian department of Boyaca, reported El Tiempo. The…