Landslide closes main road to Colombia’s poverty-stricken west for a year
A four-mile stretch on the main highway between the impoverished west of the country and Medellin will be closed for about one year as a result of a huge landslide,…
A four-mile stretch on the main highway between the impoverished west of the country and Medellin will be closed for about one year as a result of a huge landslide,…
More than 50 young people in northwest of Colombia have been providing aid to undocumented migrants that want to cross the country’s dangerous jungles on the border with Panama. Concerns…
The United Nations urged Colombia on Tuesday to take immediate action against ongoing violence in the northwest of the country. According to figures of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR, over…
A paramilitary group allegedly assassinated a native Colombian leader in the northwest of the country, half a year after he requested protection from the government. The murder of the indigenous…
A deputy of the Choco province assembly was found murdered in western Colombia on Wednesday, raising the alarm for security around October’s elections. Two of the three campaign assistants who…
While Colombia’s president Ivan Duque was leading efforts to get US aid into Venezuela, leaders from the west were crying out for help after the region was hit by a…
Bogota’s city government on Tuesday vowed it would guarantee the safe return of hundred of displaced people that have been stranded in the capital without food or shelter for weeks.…
Police outside Colombia’s capital on Monday retained hundreds of victims of ongoing armed conflict in the west of the country for two days, refusing them entry to Bogota until Monday.…
For many living in Colombia’s Pacific region, the idea of economic development seems almost impossible. This is something Jimmy Garcia, a 36-year-old systems engineer from Quibdó, wants to change. He…