Colombia’s authorities are targeting three contractors who allegedly embezzled more than $10 million from vital school feeding programs on the Caribbean coast, local media reported.
Following reports of starving children in the north and west of Colombia, 11 indigenous children is the east of the country also recently died from starvation, according to a senator.
Colombia is Latin America’s second most unequal country in the Americas after Honduras, according to updated World Bank statistics.
Colombia’s poor await a tough year with soaring food prices, a possible sales tax hike and a recent increase in minimum wage that fails to curb a drop in half of the labor force’s purchasing…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered Colombia to take action against extreme poverty in northern Colombia where more than 4,000 indigenous children have died of malnutrition in the past eight years.
Colombia’s mayors are not updating the registries that connect the poorest populations to government funds — leaking subsidies to rich and dead persons instead of those living in poverty, according to the National…
Colombia has succeeded in achieving UN Millennium Development Goals of poverty reduction in advance of its target, halving levels of poverty it little more than a decade.
Almost half of Colombia’s rural population — 44.7% to be exact — lives below the poverty line, according to the country’s statistics agency DANE.
More than half of Medellin’s 2.5 million residents do not have access to three meals a day, revealed the city’s food bank in a recent study.