Colombia’s homicide rate will drop below zero in 2014, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said after presenting extremely promising mid-term crime statistics. The president discarded increasing pessimism among Colombians regarding…
President Juan Manuel Santos admitted Monday that Colombians’ perception of security has gone down, but insisted that the security forces are increasingly effective in fighting rebel and neo-paramilitary groups. According…
To increase tourism in Bogota, Colombia’s capital city should not just focus on improved policing, but also pay attention to making the city more attractive to the eye, a U.S.…
A Colombian general on Friday denied media reports that 3,000 more troops would arrive in Bogota to bolster security. General Gabriel Pinilla, commander of the Bogota-based 13th Brigade, told W…
Fernando Londoño, the former minister who was targeted in a May 15 terrorist attack, maintains that the FARC are behind the bombing that killed two people and injured dozens more…
Colombian authorities captured a man Wednesday suspected of participating in the May 15 bombing in Bogota. Local media said police captured Andres Felipe Rios on suspicion of having taken part…
Former minister Fernando Londoño, who was the target of Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Bogota, blamed Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, for the bombing that killed two members of his entourage…
Colombian authorities Wednesday released images of suspects of Tuesday’s assassination attempt on a former minister in the Colombian capital of Bogota. Last Tuesday a bomb exploded in the north of…
Authorities investigating Tuesday’s Bogota terrorist attack that targeted a former minister said Wednesday they do not rule out that the FARC or “another terrorist group” is responsible for the bombing in Bogota.…