Farmers have clashed with riot police in northern Colombia, with 400 demonstrating against government failures to help change farms from coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, to legal crops. Farmers…
Authorities in northern Colombia ordered the evacuation of 12 towns located downstream the Hidroituango electric dam after energy company EPM lost control of its construction. The scale of the emergency…
A policeman was arrested in northern Colombia over his alleged participation in the killing of nine of his colleagues by paramilitary group AGC, the institution announced Monday. According to the…
Health contractors in northern Colombia embezzled tens of millions of dollars by funding expensive medicine for ghost patients, the country’s inspector general said Tuesday. The country’s Inspector General found that…
A bus accident in northern Colombia killed at least five people and injured at least 16 on Sunday, local authorities said. Two Irish citizens, two Australians and one Portuguese citizen…
A Colombian senator wanted on charges he bribed the Supreme Court has surrendered to justice weeks after the high court ordered his arrest. Senator Musa Besaile (U Party), an ally…
Police in the northwest of Colombia have issued a red alert amid fears that the AGC may avenge the killing on a ringleader of the country’s largest illegal armed group,…
A Colombian opposition senator was scorned Saturday after blaming demobilizing FARC guerrillas for a flooding disaster that killed more than 150 people in the southern city of Mocoa. Senator Daniel Cabrales of…
On the very day Colombia’s defense minister denied the existence of paramilitary groups, local media reported the assassination of three human and civil rights workers by presumed AUC successors. A woman who…