Fire destroys 30 homes in troubled Pacific Colombian port town
A fire broke out on Tuesday in the Colombia port of Buenaventura, consuming 30 wooden homes and leaving 200 residents homeless.
A fire broke out on Tuesday in the Colombia port of Buenaventura, consuming 30 wooden homes and leaving 200 residents homeless.
Three months after the UN called on Colombia to take “urgent measures” to curb violence in the Pacific port city of Buenaventura, the government has yet to contain the swell…
El Valle, located in Colombia’s Pacific coastal state of Choco, is surrounded by thick humid jungle and dark sand beaches. At daytime you can watch whales cruise by and at…
In response to a refusal of local women to have sex with their husbands, Colombia’s army engineers said Thursday they have started constructing a road that connects an isolated coastal…
A group of young Colombian musicians known as “Cantares del Pacifico” is crossing the Atlantic for five days in a cultural exchange of music and dance with the west African…
An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck off the Pacific coast of Colombia on Tuesday. There are no reports of human injury nor damage to buildings.
The main route to Buenaventura, Colombia’s main port on the Pacific coast, has been cleared by security forces amid protests by miners, reported local media on Friday.
The Colombian navy on Wednesday said it had seized 791 kilos of cocaine on the pacific coast.
Nineteen tourists were rescued off Colombia’s Pacific coast on Sunday, following a search and rescue operation conducted by the navy.