Colombia turns attention to extreme poverty in Pacific west
Colombia’s government revealed plans on Thursday to confront the extreme poverty that has been killing children in the Pacific west of the country.
Colombia’s government revealed plans on Thursday to confront the extreme poverty that has been killing children in the Pacific west of the country.
The authorities of Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest port on the Pacific, rang the alarm after discovering two new dismembered corpses in a mass grave near the docks on Wednesday.
A semi-submersible, four meter long “torpedo” which could traffic 200 kg of cocaine to central America has been seized by the navy on Colombia’s Pacific coast.
The western Colombian city of Quibdo is set to celebrate the San Pacho festival, a 32-day rip-roaring party that culminates in a parade in honor of their patron saint Saint Francis…
Authorities in Colombia’s largest Pacific port, Buenaventura, have found 14 dismembered bodies so far in 2014, after yet another butchered corpse was discovered Tuesday, reported local media.
Wednesday marks Colombia’s Afro-Colombian Day, which pays homage to the contributions of Afro-Colombian communities and calls attention to their ongoing struggle for equality.
A semi submersible vehicle carrying more than 2 tons of cocaine was found 50 miles away from the shores of Western Colombia’s state of Nariño, Colombia’s media reported Tuesday.
Twenty-three states in Colombia have been placed on orange or red alert, as torrential downpours marking the start of the regional rainy season hit communities throughout the country. According to…
The Colombian Navy said Tuesday it had rescued more than 130 passengers from a disabled ship 22 miles from the Pacific coast.