Two former congressmen on trial for parapolitics
Two former congress representatives for the northern Colombian department of Choco, Edgar Ulises Torres and Odin Sanchez Montes de Oca, were on Wednesday called to trial by the Supreme Court…
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Avianca opens new Medellin-Madrid flight route
Colombian airline Avianca announced that it will open up a new connection between the central Colombian city of Medellin and Spain’s capital Madrid, as well as increasing flights between Bogota and…
Police arrest 10 key paramilitary backers
Colombian authorities last week arrested ten people, including wealthy landowners and businessmen, for financing and collaborating with a notorious wing of paramilitary coalition the AUC, which terrorized the departments of…
179 Colombians displaced in Choco department
One hundred and seventy-nine people from a rural community in the Colombian department of Choco were displaced from their homes after being warned by a local paramilitary group of impending…
3,000 Colombian families hit by extreme weather
The Colombian Red Cross said Wednesday that 3,000 families across the country have been affected the floods, landslides and high winds that have battered the country in the last two weeks,…
Electoral fraud suspected in Bogota, Cartagena and Choco
Authorities in the Colombian cities of Bogota and Cartagena, as well as in the northwestern department of Choco, suspect fraudulent activity in the ballot counting for the country’s congressional elections…
Paramilitaries besiege indigenous community and kidnap 14
Authorities in the western Colombian department of Choco announced that an illegally armed group, thought to be paramilitary, is currently holding an indigenous community of some 300 people captive and…
Colombian aphrodisiac fruit to be used in energy drink
The native Colombian fruit known as “borojo” will be cultivated and used as a key ingredient in two new high-energy drinks. The fruit, which grows in the western Colombian department…
Child mortality rate in some parts of Colombia as high as in Africa
The child mortality rate in large parts of the west and north of Colombia is as high as in some parts of Africa’s most depressing regions, the country’s Health Ministry…