Not all Colombian contract killers are spotty teenagers
A report in Colombian tabloid El Espacio proved that not all the country’s contract killers are spotty teenagers, but that some are attractive women. According to the newspaper, a “beautiful…
A report in Colombian tabloid El Espacio proved that not all the country’s contract killers are spotty teenagers, but that some are attractive women. According to the newspaper, a “beautiful…
Violence in the department of Cordoba has been increasing, according to a report from Verdad Abierta. Numerous labor and union leaders, as well as those fighting for land to be…
Another 30,000 Colombian have suffered because of heavy rains the past week, the director of the Colombian Red Cross said Sunday. Since March, the beginning of the rainy season, a…
The city of Ayapel in the Cordoba department is one of the areas hardest hit by Colombia’s rainy season, with more than 5,000 families affected by the extreme weather. The flooding…
More than 7,500 Colombians have been displaced by the country’s armed conflict so far in 2010, according to a United Nations report, which says that “serious gaps [in] the protection…
Ongoing heavy rains in northern Colombia have caused the Magdalena river to burst its banks and left thousands of Colombians affected by flooding and adverse weather in the Magdalena, Bolivar, Cordoba,…
Colombia’s police reported the arrest 100 members of illegal armed groups during the last week of former President Alvaro Uribe’s leadership. According to a police press release, 68 people linked…
Colombian authorities arrested Argemino Aguirre Montes alias “Camilo,” who is believed to be the leader of the “Los Paisas” drug trafficking organization in the northern Cordoba department. Camilo is believed…
The homicide rate in Colombia’s north-west department Cordoba continues to increase, with 307 murders reported between January and June this year. According to national police data presented in a study…