Santos visits Cucuta days after Venezuela deports hundreds of Colombians
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited the border with Venezuela Wednesday evening days after more than a 1,000 Colombians were expelled from the neighboring country.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited the border with Venezuela Wednesday evening days after more than a 1,000 Colombians were expelled from the neighboring country.
The Colombian city of Cucuta, located on the border with Venezuela, is struggling to deal with its share of more than 1,000 Colombian nationals deported by Venezuelan authorities over the past…
Military operations against Colombia’s most wanted drug lords, “Otoniel” and “Megateo,” have displaced more than a 1,000 people this week.
Authorities on Monday claimed that “Megateo,” one of Colombia’s most feared drug lords, had been shot by a sniper. Nevertheless, police and soldiers looking for the former guerrilla have no…
Farmers in the north of Colombia are threatening protests after reports that the government is considering the resumption of chemical aerial fumigation of coca, just months after a ban of the potentially carcinogenic pesticide glyphosate.
Presumed guerrillas have opened fire at two civilian helicopters that were flying repairmen to the site where leftist rebels had damaged an oil pipeline in the north of Colombia, state-run…
A series of alleged FARC attacks on oil infrastructure in the northeast of Colombia forced state-run oil company Ecopetrol to suspend operations while displacing more than 50 families.
Kidnappers on Saturday released the daughter of the director of the UNP, Colombia’s agency in charge of protecting threatened persons.
The 11-year-old daughter of the director of the NPU, Colombia’s government agency in charge of protecting threatened civilians, has been kidnapped, authorities said Thursday.