Around 1,500 indigenous Guambiano people are marching from southern Colombia to the country’s capital Bogota, where they will stage a peaceful protest against the bicentennial of independence on July 20.…
FARC guerrillas announced that they are lifting an armed blockade in Huila, south-west Colombia, after nearly 3,000 inhabitants from the town of Algeciras took to the streets to demand their right…
Officials at the infamous La Modelo prison in Bogota told the Colombian prison authority (INPEC) that COP77 million ($38,000) was stolen from a safe in the administrative section of the…
Bogota police Thursday afternoon resorted to using force to end the armed occupation of the headquarters of Accion Social, Colombia’s presidential aid agency, by displaced protesters who were demanding promised aid…
A group of around 60 displaced Colombians took over the Bogota headquarters of Accion Social, Colombia’s presidential aid agency, to protest against the government’s delay in providing them with promised aid…
Colombia saw widespread protests on Wednesday against President Alvaro Uribe’s recent criticisms of decisions made by the Supreme Court, reported Colombian media. The protests, which were organized by Colombia’s National…
Three prisoners died and another 25 were injured during a riot at Bogota’s La Modelo prison, sparked by protests over the transfer of an inmate in a bid to control…
Juan Manuel Santos, presidential candidate for Partido de la U, had to be escorted by police from a university in the Colombian city of Cali on Wednesday after student protesters…
Protesters angry at Venezuela’s arrest of several small-time Colombian smugglers decided to temporarily lift a blockade they had placed at the countries’ shared border, after the Colombian consul in San…