Grenade attack on home of Cordoba mayor
Unknown assailants attacked the house of the mayor of Tierralta, a town in the northern Colombian department of Cordoba, with a hand grenade on Friday. No injuries were caused by…
Unknown assailants attacked the house of the mayor of Tierralta, a town in the northern Colombian department of Cordoba, with a hand grenade on Friday. No injuries were caused by…
Members of paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” arrested last week admit to murdering at least a dozen people, including witnesses in Colombia’s Justice and Peace process, reports El Tiempo. Police said that…
The owner of a donkey in the north Colombian department of Cordoba threatens to sell the animal, after it attacked the owner’s two children, in an apparent hormonal rage. According…
The trial of Colombian former Senate president Mario Uribe Escobar is due to begin Tuesday, following allegations that the official used paramilitary help in his election campaign. Uribe, who is…
The Virgin of Guadalupe appears to have a penchant for the tropical lifestyle. A family claims that she appeared in a palm tree in their backyard in San Pelayo, in Colombia’s…
Colombian police arrested 15 alleged drug traffickers, believed to belong to the “Los Rastrojos” gang, in Buenavista in the north-western Cordoba department. A prosecutor from the Anti-Narcotics Unit ordered the…
Despite hopes for peace, following the the mass-demobilization of Colombia’s most notorious paramilitary group the AUC, violence in Colombia’s northern department of Cordoba remains widespread, as neo paramilitary forces fill…
The northern Colombian department of Cordoba will, from March 25 to 27, be filled with the sound of traditional folk from the Caribbean coast, as it hosts the Festival of…
A new report by UNESCO, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, highlights threats to journalists in Colombia, noting that four reporters were killed in the country in the last…