Manual coca spraying will kill people: former top Colombia narcotics adviser
Colombia’s decision to return to spraying illicit crops with an allegedly cancerous chemical will kill people, according to a former top counter-narcotics official.
Colombia’s decision to return to spraying illicit crops with an allegedly cancerous chemical will kill people, according to a former top counter-narcotics official.
The chief of Colombia’s state-run oil company was forced to make a public apology after insulting a university professor by claiming the scholar was below “my own level.”
Colombia’s government decided on Monday to resume using the controversial weed killer that was suspended less than a year ago amid cancer concerns, while upholding a ban on aerial spraying.
Colombia kicked off a campaign on Monday to raise local awareness about the importance of keeping tourist sites clean.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday he had suspended the environmental license that allowed a US oil company’s subsidiary to explore fracking possibilities near one of the country’s most precious ecosystems.
Locals and Colombia tourism operators are furious after finding out the subsidiary of a US oil company is allowed to explore fracking possibilities near the springs of the Caño Cristales river, one…
Medellin authorities have temporarily suspended outdoor activities in the city following extreme levels of pollution in recent weeks.
Medellin authorities have declared a red alert over the city’s air quality that has become a health hazard for the 3 million inhabitants of Colombia’s second largest city. The director of…
Colombia’s constitutional court has revoked all mining licenses granted to companies that wanted to carry out mining activities in one of the South Americans paramos, according to local media.