The head of financial operations for one of the FARC rebel group’s main drug trafficking wings was captured in Colombia’s central state of Meta, the country’s armed forces announced on…
A Colombian businessman was rescued by anti-kidnapping forces early Monday morning after being held captive for two months.
Police confirmed 16 policemen in northern Colombia have been detained for suspected ties to criminal groups, in an ongoing national operation to shut down organizations dedicated to theft and extortion,…
Local commerce in the largest port on Colombia’s Pacific coast ground to a halt Wednesday as business owners closed their storefronts and joined citizens protesting the city’s escalating violence, according…
Colombia’s largest criminal networks are increasingly extorting the Andean nation’s teachers, national media reported Sunday.
Police in the western Colombian state of Choco claim to have arrested the guerrilla responsible for a bombing of a local supermarket that left five people dead and as many as…
A bomb exploded in Quibdo, a city in the west of Colombia, on Tuesday, leaving three men and one women dead.
Colombia’s ombudsman on Wednesday called on authorities to protect more than a thousand teachers that are being threatened throughout the country.
A presumed truce between the two most powerful criminal organizations in Medellin is resulting in a drop in homicides, but is fueling extortion and protection racketeering schemes, said a local…