Colombia’s government vows to invest $1.3 million (COP4.2 billion) in tourism infrastructure around the Caño Cristales, considered the world’s most beautiful river by some. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry Tourism…
Six people were murdered in a town in central Colombia in a place that the government just months earlier hailed as “far from the associations to the armed conflict and…
Oil company Ecopetrol on Sunday suspended mining operations in central Colombia amid violent protests in which four workers were wounded, according to the state-run company. The decision comes after locals…
Authorities have arrested the leader of the enforcer army of one of Colombia’s most prolific drug lords, local media reported Sunday. Arnulfo Guzman, a.k.a. “El Tigre,” was the supreme commander…
Hundreds of armed conflict victims will be attending mass with Pope Francis while the Catholic Church leader visits the central Colombian city of Villavicencio on Friday. Luis Emil Sanabria of…
US oil company Hupecol Operating has sued Colombia for banning fracking near one of the country’s most unique ecosystems, the Caño Cristales river, according to local media. The Houston-based company…
Authorities arrested the alleged central Colombia commander of drug trafficking paramilitary group AGC who has admitted to being involved in anti-leftist political violence since the 1980s. Edilson Cifuentes, a.k.a. Richard,…
Colombia’s alleged top drug lord is again a free man after a series of surprise court rulings that allowed “Puntilla” to await pending court proceedings in liberty at home where a…