Cali authorities will strengthen security measures in the city over the holiday season with operation ‘’Christmas Plan” in anticipation for the annual Cali festival, reported local media. Colombian newspaper El…
Colombia’s capital city of Bogota is set to start the holiday season off with a boom with its annual fireworks show on December 7 with a slew of Christmas lights,…
Bogota is ready to turn on the approximately 8.5 million christmas lights that are part of the Colombian capital’s 2012 Christmas Route. Santa Fe Radio reported that more than 53…
The festive season in Colombia could mark the beginning of “reunion and love” as a citizens’ initiative attempts the government and the FARC to agree on a month-long ceasefire. REDEPAZ,…
Bogota police were called to attend 900 reports of brawls and fights during Christmas eve celebrations in Colombia’s capital. Bogota police commissioner Luis Eduardo Martinez told Caracol Radio that four…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says in his Christmas speech evening that the country has not forgotten the hostages who are not able to celebrate Christmas with their families because…
A Bogota woman has racked up a 32-strong collection of Christmas Nativity scenes, newspaper El Tiempo reported Thursday. Elizabeth Jimenez said “Forty-five years ago I made a promise to God…
The Colombia army set adrift hundreds of illuminating balls in the country’s main jungle rivers to convince FARC guerrillas to demobilize before Christmas. The operation, dubbed “Rivers of Light” was…
Colombia’s increasing number of landmine victims are the “poorest, most removed from urban centers and health care” of all victims of the country’s armed conflict, said the director of the…