Local election candidates assassinated in southwest Colombia
Two Liberal Party candidates for the city council of a town in the southwest of Colombia were assassinated Sunday. According to Caracol Radio, the two were shot dead while meeting…
Two Liberal Party candidates for the city council of a town in the southwest of Colombia were assassinated Sunday. According to Caracol Radio, the two were shot dead while meeting…
Partido de la U Congressman Luis Fernando Ochoa said the man captured for trying to extort him out of $111,000 over the past months was being directed by a fellow…
Colombian authorities have seized assets valued at approximately $2.8 million, belonging to various extradited narco-traffickers, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. The seized property consists of nine buildings, four shops and 65…
Canadian oil company Parex Resources announced it will acquire a company which holds 50% of the interests that Parex does not already own in four blocks of the Llanos Basin…
Three Navy personnel died on Monday during a fire on a gunboat in the southwest Colombia department of Putumayo, reports El Espectador. According to authorities, the fire apparently broke out…
Six military officials were called to trial Tuesday for the case of an alleged “false positive” killing in 2007, Colombian media reported. The soldiers had been under investigation for the…
Colombia’s armed forces have seized 273 anti-personnel mines belonging to a FARC group operating in the southern department of Putumayo, RCN Radio reports. According to the army, the total number…
Heavily armed men murdered four adults and one child in a farmhouse in the south-Colombian Putumayo department. The massacre took place in the municipality of San Miguel, some 8 miles…
The FARC’s 48th Front has formed alliances with criminal groups to secure its drug trafficking activities in the south of Colombia, the country’s defense minister said Thursday. Minister Rodrigo Rivera,…