Police catch “Niño Fabian,” thought to be the head of criminal band “La Cordillera” (The Mountain Range) in the city of Pereira, central-west Colombia, Colombian media reported Monday. Jose Fabian Guzman…
The murder rate is down 26.5% in Pereira in 2010, making it the Colombian city with the highest decline in homicides, according to the mayor. Data provided by the local…
Colombian civil aviation authorities approved a series of new flight routes that will link the Andean country with international destinations in Central America, the Caribbean and Europe, as well as…
U.S. soccer side The Philadelphia Union signed Colombian defender Juan Diego Gonzalez Alzate on Thursday, the club announced on its website. The 30-year-old, Medellin-born central defender was acquired from Colombian…
Colombia’s unemployment rate hit 12.1% in May, up from 11.7% in the same month in 2009, according to figures from national statistics agency DANE. Whilst around 19 million Colombians are…
Colombian unemployment rose to 12.2% in April of this year, with 123,000 more jobless people compared to the same period in 2009, according to government statistics agency DANE. The number…
The World Bank’s annual “Doing Business” report found that starting a business is easier in Colombia’s smaller cities than in its larger ones, reports website Dinero.com. Cities such as Manizales,…
21-year-old Pereira model Eliana Gutierrez was recently named Colombia’s candidate for Model of the World at the Summer Festival of Gaitan, held in Meta, and will now head to London to…
The authorities arrested an alleged FARC finance boss on Thursday in the central Colombian city of Pereira, after tracking him for months. Intelligence agents arrested Rudsber Quinchia Davila, alias “Pabesa,”…