Local commerce in the largest port on Colombia’s Pacific coast ground to a halt Wednesday as business owners closed their storefronts and joined citizens protesting the city’s escalating violence, according…
Residents of Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest port city, plan to protest against the extreme violence that has taken over the Pacific area despite recent government attempts to control the issue, local…
The city of Buenaventura will see the demolition of a number of recently discovered “chopping houses,” used by drug gangs to mutilate their victims’ bodies and make them disappear.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday said he has ordered security forces to take action in the Pacific port town of Buenaventura after the discovery of four houses meant…
Three months after the UN called on Colombia to take “urgent measures” to curb violence in the Pacific port city of Buenaventura, the government has yet to contain the swell…
A commission of the Organization of American States on Wednesday urged Colombia to increase efforts to resolve the case of a recently assassinated journalist.
A TV cameraman was assassinated in western Colombia Wednesday night, with a nationally based NGO highlighting the failure of security forces to protect the journalist.
A small protest in a neighborhood of Colombia’s Pacific coast city Buenaventura turned violent Tuesday night after residents went four days without access to tap water.
Authorities were able to reestablish power in Colombia’s largest port city Thursday afternoon after a bomb reportedly disabled the local electrical grid.