Striking truckers have blocked a key transit route between Cali (Colombia’s third largest city) and the western port city of Buenaventura. Colombia’s truckers union (ACC) on Friday announced that they…
Colombian President Juan Manual Santos said Monday he has used money taken from a narcotrafficker to build 565 houses for citizens in the troubled port city Buenaventura on the western…
At least ten alleged drug traffickers have been assassinated just outside the Pacific port city of Buenaventura in what seems to be a war between drug trafficking gangs, Colombia’s police…
New waves of violence have emerged from the fragmentation of Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups and drug cartels, concentrated in Colombia’s central region and Caribbean and Pacific coasts but is present in…
A massacre in western Colombia adds to the string of violence permeating through the region, local media reported Monday. According to reports, four people were slaughtered in San Juan, Choco near…
A landslide in southwest Colombia on Tuesday left four miners dead and another two injured, reported local media. Heavy rains in the southwest municipality of Buenaventura on Tuesday caused a…
Colombia’s Ombudsman has warned of a serious humanitarian crisis in the southwest corner of the country, local media reported Wednesday. According to newspaper El Espectador, Ombudsman Jorge Armando Otalora complained…
Colombia’s Navy has killed three and captured eight FARC guerrillas held responsible for an attack on electricity towers in the west of the country that has left tens of thousands…
Nine people, including seven minors, were injured Monday by a grenade attack in southwestern Colombia. Authorities said the grenade was launched against an army checkpoint in the Pacific port city…