At least 112 members of a single family were forced from their homes last week by criminal groups in Colombia’s largest Pacific port, according to the Colombian Ombudsman’s Office.
Some 70 homes and several other buildings in the southeastern Colombian port city of Buenaventura have been destroyed after a storm surge hit the city’s coastline.
A report from Colombia’s highest government human rights official says rights violations continue to plague the port city of Buenaventura, despite the ongoing intervention by the Colombian military.
The grisly discovery of human remains at low tide on Colombia’s southern Pacific coast brings the count so far in 2014 to nine people, according to local media reports. Parishoners…
Judging that Colombia’s government has not done enough or not been transparent enough, a high court has asked the executive branch to report on what it has done to address…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos told onlookers in Buenaventura that 136 members of dangerous criminal gangs had been captured by security forces over the last month and a half, contributing…
There have been dozens of murders, eight disappearances and hundreds displaced in the unfolding civil unrest in the Pacific port city of Buenaventura in Colombia’s southwest, according to Colombia’s highest…
Narcotics police confiscated $13 million worth of cocaine in Colombia’s largest Pacific port Monday, national media reported.
Colombia’s Defense Ministry on Thursday promised more troops to contain the exacerbated human rights crisis in the coastal city of Buenaventura.