Pereira bans vuvuzelas from U-20 World Cup games
The city of Pereira has banned vuvuzelas from U-20 World Cup games. City officials made the announcement before Ecuador was to play Costa Rica and Nigeria was to face Saudi…
The city of Pereira has banned vuvuzelas from U-20 World Cup games. City officials made the announcement before Ecuador was to play Costa Rica and Nigeria was to face Saudi…
A Colombian court sentenced a priest and former teacher to over seven years in prison for sexually abusing his 10-year-old student, reported the news site Terra Friday. An attorney at…
A second Colombian soldier has died in Afghanistan, in the explosion of an antipersonnel mine, local media reported Tuesday. Gustavo Rios Ordoñez, a 25-year-old Colombian from Pereira, died in the…
Members of an indigenous community have blocked a major interdepartmental road linking Antioquia and Choco for two days, protesting a lack of health care. The road between the departmental capital…
Colombia’s homicide rate has dropped by 8% in the first four months of 2011, compared with the same period last year, according to police statistics. To date, 4,469 homicides have…
The army has found 10 bodies thought to be former AUC members in a mass grave in the municipality of Toledo, northern Antioquia department, reported El Tiempo. After three days…
At least five people died and four were injured Thursday when a truck crashed into a number of houses and shops in the central Colombian city of Pereira. According to…
Luis Moreno, the soccer player responsible for killing a rival team’s mascot owl is in trouble again after kicking an opposing player in the stomach in Sunday’s match. Panamanian Moreno…
Colombia’s coffee-growing region launched its first website Wednesday to draw more attention to the region’s tourism possibilities. According to export and tourism promoter Proexport, the website “will allow the region…