ELN planning offensive in northern Colombia: Police
Police in the north of Colombia said Tuesday that they have increased security measures over...
Tag: Magdalena Medio
Colombia recaptures 1st former AUC chief after early prison release
Colombian authorities arrested the first former commander of paramilitary group AUC, many of whom...
Colombia’s ‘oldest paramilitary’ admits crimes
The man unofficially known as Colombia’s “oldest paramilitary” has accepted...
Neo-paramiltarism feeds violence in northern Colombia
Neo-paramilitary groups are the main generators of violence and threaths against civilians in the northern Middle Magdalena region, according to a Colombian NGO. According to the conflict monitoring NGO Nuevo Arco Iris, death...
Grenade explodes in north-Colombia bar: 1 dead, 27 injured
Unknown men threw a grenade into a bar in the northern Colombian city of Barrancabermeja Saturday, killing one and injuring 27 According to media reports, two men on a motorcycle passed the establishment and threw the grenade....
Magdalena Medio (map)
The Magdalena Medio region is one of Colombia’s wealthiest regions because of its natural...
US wants FTA with Colombia while human rights deterioration culminates in massacre
While the United States considers a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia, the human rights situation in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia has deteriorated dramatically, culminating on the 17th of August with a massacre...
