A Bogota prosecutor on Tuesday indicted two former Liberal Party politicians for their alleged complicity in the murder of a journalist in 2002. According to the prosecution, several witnesses have…
A landslide in the city of Manizales, in Colombia’s coffee region, has destroyed nine homes, Caracol Radio reported Monday. The disaster occurred in the western part of the city, when…
Five people from a village in the central-Colombian Caldas department are missing after a flooded river swept away their house. According to media reports, heavy rains caused the Oyeta gorge,…
One miner dies from inhaling gas and another is missing after an accident in a gold mine on the boundary of the Caldas and Risaralda departments, central Colombia, El Espectador reports. Intense…
Family members of demobilized paramilitary leaders gear up their campaigns for Colombian local government positions in the 2011 elections, newspaper El Tiempo reported Thursday. Roberto Jiminez Naranjo, the brother of extradited…
Sofinel Baez Santos from the Dominican Republic was elected Coffee Queen 2011. The 20-year old beauty was crowned Sunday at the final evening of the Manizales festival. Baez Santos will…
Transparency for Colombia, the Colombian chapter of Transparency International, on Thursday released its 2008-2009 Departmental and Municipal Transparency Indexes which measure corruption in Colombia’s local government bodies. The indexes measure the…
Heavy rains over the weekend left eight people dead and many roads blocked by landslides in what has been a record-setting rainy season across Colombia. Eight people were killed in…
Seven tons of marijuana were seized in rural municipalities in the central Colombian department of Caldas over Halloween weekend, RCN Radio reports. The Caldas government secretary, Henry Murillo Arboleda, said…