One in ten of Colombia’s ombudsmen have received death threats since 2008, the president of the National Federation of Ombudsmen (FENALPER) said Tuesday. According to FENALPER, three ombudsmen were assassinated…
The feared lionfish with its venomous dorsal fins has become a favorite delicacy in the Caribbean and the United States. The Caribbean Coast has seen a ravaging expansion of the…
Emergency services are working to free around 100 workers trapped following an explosion in a tunnel in the San Fernando mine located in Amaga, in the central Colombian department of…
Colombian armed forces commander General Freddy Padilla said Tuesday that FARC numbers have sharply declined in recent years, in response to a Red Cross warning that the guerrilla group are…
Representatives of Colombia’s indigenous Wiwa community, based in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, met last weekend to discuss the increasing risk posed by illegal armed groups active in the area,…
Authorities on Monday maintained the orange alert level for Galeras volcano, saying the volcano has been “extremely quiet” since Saturday’s eruption. Authorities in the southern Colombian department of Nariño stated…
Colombian authorities raise alert level to ‘Orange’ on Thursday for the Nariño department’s Galeras volcano, which experts expect to erupt within days. The Colombian Institute of Mining and Geology declared…