Documentary short highlights social costs of coal mining in northern Colombia
Three decades of coal mining in northern Colombia have had devastating effects in two states in the country’s Caribbean region, as a new documentary shows.
Three decades of coal mining in northern Colombia have had devastating effects in two states in the country’s Caribbean region, as a new documentary shows.
Almost 90% of the hospitals in one northeastern Colombia state face the immediate threat of financial insolvency, according to local authorities.
Colombia’s National Police began confiscating property on Tuesday belonging to a jailed former governor from the north of Colombia on trial for multiple homicides.
Nearly 40,000 indigenous people are being affected by a “famine” in Colombia’s arid northern state of La Guajira, an issue exacerbated by the closure of the nearby Venezuelan border, according…
A Spanish photographer has been missing in northern Colombia, said Reporters Without Borders on Monday.
A prominent Colombian senator claimed Tuesday he had receiving threats after speaking out against a recently arrested governor with alleged paramilitary ties.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced Thursday that the government will offer a reward up to $133,000 for any information that would lead to the capture of gang leader Marcos…
Officials in the north of Colombia on Saturday arrested a state governor for alleged collaboration with right-wing (neo-)paramilitaries and suspected involvement in three murders.
One of Colombia’s most prominent and outspoken investigative journalists, Claudia Lopez, said Tuesday that she had fled the country after receiving death threats.