13.2 ton drug bust proves to be 99% smaller
A 13.2 ton drug bust the Cartagena police announced in May turned out to actually be only 35.3 pounds. The single container of panela (a substance similar to brown…
A 13.2 ton drug bust the Cartagena police announced in May turned out to actually be only 35.3 pounds. The single container of panela (a substance similar to brown…
The Colombian navy has captured two suspected human traffickers and 13 illegal immigrants in the Gulf of Uraba, off the Antioquia department coast, close to Panama, local media reported Tuesday.…
A complex criminal network linked to drug trafficking group “Los Rastrojos” was dismantled in the western Colombian department of Choco, with 13 out of the 37 captured coming from the…
General Gustavo Matamoros Camacho, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Colombia’s armed forces, is to be replaced, various local media reported Thursday. The announcement was made Thursday morning by…
The commander of Colombia’s armed forces, Admiral Edgar Cely, has said that the FARC and the ELN are “dying” but they will not accept it and are increasing terrorist attacks…
Colombian narco-traffickers seem to be increasingly making semi-submersibles outside of the country in an attempt to evade Colombian authorities, Navy Commander Admiral Alvaro Echandia has said. “What they do is…
Three Navy personnel died on Monday during a fire on a gunboat in the southwest Colombia department of Putumayo, reports El Espectador. According to authorities, the fire apparently broke out…
Thirty three people were rescued Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after their boat suffered mechanical failures, media reported. Colombia’s Navy made the rescue after receiving a report that 26 adults…
Colombia’s Navy arrested five on Saturday in an operation that saw the seizure of a boat carrying 400 kilos of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean, El Espectador reported. The boat…