Former mayor assassinated in southern Colombia
Armed men assassinated the former mayor of Mocoa, the capital of the Putumayo province in southern...
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30,000 evacuated as Colombia’s Mocoa prevents another disaster
More than 30,000 people were evacuated from Mocoa in south Colombia over the weekend after heavy...
Political leaders charged over south Colombia disaster that killed more than 300
Local politicians are responsible for the death of at least 336 people in the southern Colombian...
Lots of promises and no action for Colombia’s disaster-struck Mocoa
Sunday marked 100 days since a landslide destroyed the southern Colombian city of Mocoa and the...
Authorities warned Colombia’s Mocoa ‘9 months ago about disaster threat’
Colombia’s southern city of Mocoa was warned nine months ago about the potential threat of...
11 dead, 15 injured in southern Colombia bus crash
At least 11 people were killed and 15 injured in a bus crash in Colombia’s southern Putamayo Department, reported local media Monday. According to Highway Patrol Director Francisco Patiño, the bus had been traveling...
9-year-old Colombian girl tied to chicken coop as punishment
A nine-year-old girl is tied to a chicken coop by her stepmother as punishment for allegedly smoking, reported newspaper El Espectador Friday. The child has been tied to the outside large chicken coop, since January 1 because...
