The local authorities have found aspiring candidate José Gregorio Botello Ortega in Colombia’s northeast two days after his disappearance, the Mira party’s Campaign manager Samir Bedoya confirmed on Thursday. The…
A candidate for Colombia’s May 25 congressional elections has been kidnapped in the northeast of the country, the politician’s party said Wednesday.
A Spanish photographer has been missing in northern Colombia, said Reporters Without Borders on Monday.
The Colombian National Police’s anti-kidnapping and extortion units (GAULA) have captured a Colombian man believed to be the brains behind a kidnapping network based in Mexico, national news reported on…
A German citizen was liberated from a house in Cali on Sunday by members of the municipal police, according to local media reports.
Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol said Monday that one of it’s contractors has been kidnapped in a rebel hotspot the northeast of the country.
Colombia offered a $20,000 reward Friday for information on the whereabouts of a notorious kidnapper and prominent rebel FARC leader Henry Castellanos.
The majority of kidnappings that took place in Colombia last year was not carried out by known guerrilla organizations, but common criminals, the country’s National Police said Tuesday.
“The families don’t lose hope that the kidnap victims will return until the last hour of the last day of the year.”