Campaign contributions and bribery kept the contraband empire of Colombia’s most important smuggler alive for decades, according to authorities that are seeking his extradition. President Gustavo Petro said over the…
Colombia’s authorities confirmed another massacre on Monday amid an apparently intensifying turf war over control over the border with Venezuela. The bodies of three men and one woman were found…
A three-week-old border closure imposed by Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has not abated smuggling into Colombia, according to business leaders and Colombian officials.
Tens of thousands of shopkeepers on Wednesday agreed to open their shops again after an agreement with the government about recently passed anti-contraband laws.
Less than 24 hours after Colombia’s congress approved an anti-contraband law, tens of thousands of shop owners and employees took to the streets claiming the law seeks to monopolize imports and hurt…
Colombia’s Police on Monday accused smugglers and the ELN, the country’s second largest rebel group, of killing three policemen and one government official at a check point in the northeast…
A house representative for Colombians abroad has strongly criticized Venezuela mistreating Colombian border community, local newspaper El Pais reported Tuesday.
At least four cars and three motorcycles were set on fire on Tuesday at Colombia’s border with Venezuela following local discontent of the enforcement of strict Venezuelan counter-contraband strategies.
The Venezuela-Colombia trade organization has warned that the current curfew measures on the border between the two countries doesn’t serve as solution, Colombia’s El Espectador newspaper reported on Tuesday.
