A north Colombian gubernatorial candidate was shot in the leg Saturday while delivering a speech. Juan Francisco Gomez Cerchar, the Radical Change party’s frontrunner for the governor’s office in La…
Colombia’s 5th annual National Gastronomy Competition chose the Misak May team from Cauca and Minka group of La Guajira as the winners of the 2011 awards on Wednesday, reported the…
The president of Colombia’s largest thermal coal miner Carbones del Cerrejon, Leon Teicher, is to step down from the position in December, the company said Tuesday. A Cerrejon spokesman…
Colombian police said Thursday they have seized 2.2 tons of cocaine that was buried in a northern desert and which has a street value of $65 million. The drugs were…
Brazilian energy company MPX Energia SA has entered into contract negotiations to export Colombian coal to U.S., Asian, and European markets, Bloomberg reported Thursday. MPX is estimating that contracts will…
Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office began a full-scale disciplinary investigation Thursday of the director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), Elvira Forero Hernández, for her involvement in alleged contract irregularities,…
Mining giants BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Xstrata announced a $1.3 billion investment Thursday to boost production at Colombia’s Carbons of Cerrejon coal mine. The expansion project, named P40, will…
A former commander of the AUC was sentenced to 26 years in prison for mass murder that took place under his command in the north Colombian department of La Guajira…
An alleged FARC explosive device has destroyed a section of a natural gas pipeline in the northern Caribbean coastal department of La Guajira for the second time in two weeks, Caracol…