Captured Peruvian drug lord awaits extradition
Police captured a drug trafficker Monday in Medellin, Colombia who is wanted for extradition to Peru, reports Caracol Radio. Anibal Zapata Avalos was captured Monday in Medellin where he had…
Police captured a drug trafficker Monday in Medellin, Colombia who is wanted for extradition to Peru, reports Caracol Radio. Anibal Zapata Avalos was captured Monday in Medellin where he had…
Masked gunmen killed two people and wounded four others when they opened fire in Medellin’s northwestern Comuna 6 early Monday morning, reported newspaper El Colombiano. Witnesses reported that the incident…
Friends of Frederick Garcha, a young British man who was murdered Saturday in Medellin, Colombia, start an appeal to raise money to repatriate his body. The appeal, “Bring Freddie Home,” was…
Former Medellin chief prosecutor Guillermo Leon Valencia Cossio was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison by the Supreme Court for his ties to drug lord and former paramilitary…
A lawyer representing the victims of two demobilized blocs of the former paramilitary group the AUC has been assassinated in Medellin, Colombian media reports. The lawyer, Ricardo Alberto Sierra, was…
The Colombian state is failing to protect human rights defenders despite making a commitment to do so, according to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), a body of the…
Police are investigating the murder of a British man killed in an apparent attempted robbery in Medellin, local media reported Monday. The U.K. citizen was murdered in the upmarket suburb…
The trial of seven men accused of being involved in the murder of Colombian drug lord Leonidas Vargas in Madrid in 2009 is set to begin Monday, Spanish news agency…
Both Atletico Nacional and Millonarios earned their second win of the season on Saturday, beating Junior and Boyaca Chico respectively. Atletico Nacional jumped to fifth place in the Colombian Liga…