Mayor of Colombia’s main port city arrested on corruption charges
The mayor of Buenaventura, Colombia’s main port city and one of the poorest cities in the country, has been arrested on corruption charges.
The mayor of Buenaventura, Colombia’s main port city and one of the poorest cities in the country, has been arrested on corruption charges.
The former mayor of the west Colombian port city of Buenaventura has been found guilty of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of city funds and sentenced to 18 years and 9…
At least 16 people were injured in a grenade attack on a shop, local authorities said Sunday.
Citizens of Colombia’s Pacific port city Buenaventura on Wednesday were still struggling to continue with daily life and business after a FARC attack on an electricity pylon on Sunday has left the city without…
Criminal gangs continue to operate freely in the port city of Buenaventura, carrying out murders and dismembering victims at an alarming rate one year after Colombia created a special task…
The authorities of Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest port on the Pacific, rang the alarm after discovering two new dismembered corpses in a mass grave near the docks on Wednesday.
More than 400 indigenous people have been forced to flee their homes in western Colombia following combat between the military and an illegal armed group near the port city of Buenaventura.
Eight United States lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry in which they say that ongoing Afro-Colombian rights abuses show that “Colombia is not in full compliance” with…
Crime in Colombia’s 11 biggest cities has dropped 25% in the first week of a recently kicked off offensive against urban crime, President Juan Manuel Santos claimed on Saturday.