‘ELN’ kidnaps 3 Choco miners during raid
A group of 11 men allegedly belonging to Colombia’s guerrilla network ELN kidnapped three miners on Monday in the municipality of Bagado in the northwest department of Choco. The miners…
A group of 11 men allegedly belonging to Colombia’s guerrilla network ELN kidnapped three miners on Monday in the municipality of Bagado in the northwest department of Choco. The miners…
More than 27 departments have been affected by the new rainy season, which has killed 29 people and left more than 20,000 families homeless. According to Jorge Londoño, the director…
Five Colombian departments have issued crisis alerts due to landslides and heavy rains brought on by the year’s second rainy season, Colombian media reported Monday. Relief agencies in the Santander,…
At least people were buried and are feared dead after a landslide hit the road connecting Colombia’s second largest city Medellin to the western city of Quibdo. According to a…
The Colombian Navy seized 0.6 tons of cocaine on boats allegedly on their way to the Caribbean Monday. The cocaine was found in secret compartments of two ships that were…
The Colombian army detained seven alleged members of the neo-paramilitary drug gang Los Rastrojos in the department of Choco on Thursday. Along with the seven detained, including one woman, troops…
Colombia’s Navy killed eight alleged FARC guerrillas and captured another two in an operation on the Pacific Ocean between the western Valle del Cauca and Choco departments, Colombian media reported.…
Authorities have suspended the fumigation of coca plantations in west Colombia following days of community protests. Up to 5000 people have been blocking roads near the Panama border in the…
More than 5,000 Afro-Colombians blocked roads between the western department of Choco and the interior of Colombia Tuesday to protest the aerial spraying of coca fields with pesticides. The illegal…