Six hundred thousand children have been displaced by the rainy season in Colombia, said the Organization of American States (OAS) Thursday. Pablo Gonzales, risk reduction director for the OAS, reported…
The population of Colombia will reach 46 million by next week according to DANE, the National Statistics Agency, Portafolio reported Monday. With one Colombian child born every minute, DANE’s population…
A woman in the north Colombian city of Barranquilla gave birth to healthy quadruplets, local media report. According to Caracol Radio, the quadruplets were the result of artificial insemination after…
A convicted felon who raped, tortured and murdered over 168 children could be free within four years, Colombian Senator Gilma Jimenez reported Monday. Luis Alfredo Garavito, known as “The Beast,”…
Colombian institution Padre Chucho, formerly of RCN’s morning show Muy Buenas Dias, told newspaper El Tiempo why his part on the show is no longer on air and responded to…
The Medellin municipal government will initiate this year’s free surgery program by providing surgical assistance to 15 young boys and girls in the city, according to a press release from…
An average of 5 pupils attending secondary school in Bogota’s poor Kennedy district are pregnant, a recent survey reported by various media Tueasday showed. The survey was conducted by the district’s…
Colombia’s most famous singer Shakira and Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff meet to discuss social programs to support Brazil’s poor children, reported El Espectator on Thursday. Shakira was in Brazil for her…
Police in the southern Colombian city of Cali break up a brawl between school-aged gang members involving sticks, stones and machetes, El Espectador reported Wednesday. Thirty minors were detained, and…