Santa Martha sounds red alert over flooding
Authorities in Santa Marta, a city on the northern coast of Colombia, declared a state of emergency, after recent heavy rainfall threatens to cause flooding. Clopad, the local disaster prevention…
Authorities in Santa Marta, a city on the northern coast of Colombia, declared a state of emergency, after recent heavy rainfall threatens to cause flooding. Clopad, the local disaster prevention…
Organizers of the 51st Fiesta del Mar have announced the names of the nine beautiful women from outside Colombia who will participate in its international beauty contest. This year’s contest,…
Colombia’s annual national Cumbia festival kicks off Thursday in the municipality of El Banco, in the north-west department of Magdalena. The event takes the form of a series of competitions…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced former congressman for the northern Magdalena department Jorge Castro Pacheco to seven years and six months in jail, after finding him guilty of parapolitics. Castro Pacheco…
Preparations are underway for Colombia’s annual National Transgender Beauty Pageant, which will take place in the Caribbean coastal town of Santa Marta from May 14 to 16, reports El Informador. The…
Following a visit to Colombia, Swiss Senator Carlo Sommaruga told Colombia Reports that he believes that the Colombian government is downplaying human rights abuses in order to maintain its free trade…
Five people were killed and 20 were injured on Tuesday when a bus traveling on a highway in northern Colombia hit a post. The accident occurred on a stretch of…
The former finance head of Colombia’s AUC paramilitaries admitted that an ex AUC boss sexually abused teenagers in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region. Carmen Rincon, alias ‘la Gorda’,…
President Alvaro Uribe Thursday ordered the Ministry or Agriculture to nullify subsidies granted to rich families in the north of Colombia that caused controversy over the possibly involved corruption. Larg…