The Venezuelan government announced the nightly closure of its border along with deployment of 17,000 troops to patrol the long boundary it shares with with Colombia, local news reported Monday.
President Juan Manuel Santos addressed the nation Monday following a FARC ambush that killed 12 Colombian soldiers near the border with Venezuela. “These 12 heroes of our country deserve all…
Residents of the border town Maicao in the north-Colombian La Guajira peninsula have protested against the violence that has already taken 23 lives in the community so far this year.…
Colombia’s national tax office DIAN announced Wednesday that contraband smuggling, primarily of liquor and cigarettes, costs Colombia $1.5 billion a year. The president of the Federation of Departments, Andres Gonzalez, said…
Colombian police in Maicao, in Colombia’s north-east La Guajira department, arrested the perpetrator of the “donkey-bombing,” which killed eleven policemen in the northern Sucre department in 1996, reports CM&. Cesar…
Colombian security agency DAS expelled a Venezuelan police officer, who allegedly entered Colombian illegally at the north eastern border town of Maicao, in the La Guajira department, Caracol Radio reports.…