Over 200 indigenous threatened in southern Colombia: UN reports
The United Nations reported Thursday that 247 indigenous people from Colombia’s southern state of Putumayo have received threats, according to local media.
The United Nations reported Thursday that 247 indigenous people from Colombia’s southern state of Putumayo have received threats, according to local media.
A 19-year-old British tourist has died in southwestern Colombia after drinking yage, a psychoactive drug used by local indigenous tribes, authorities said Saturday.
Colombia’s oldest rebel group FARC has destroyed 20 homes in an attack in the south-western region of Putumayo on the border to Ecuador, reported local media on Friday.
An oil slick from a leaking pipeline has contaminated a major Amazonian river that runs between Ecuador and Colombia, reported Spanish press agency EFE on Monday.
The first retrospective of indigenous Colombian artist Carlos Jacanamijoy begins on Thursday in Bogota.
The brains behind the biggest Ponzi scheme in Colombia’s history has been sentenced to 30 years and 8 months in prison for money laundering and illegally receiving money.
FARC rebels in Colombia’s southern jungle are stepping up their combat operations and strengthening their ranks, the army and locals say. They fear the local units will continue drug trafficking…
Colombia’s armed forces said Tuesday it had killed four FARC rebels in combat with the Colombian army in the southern Putumayo department. Additionally, two rebels were captured and another three…
Alleged members of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC have attacked a police post in the south of the country Tuesday, local media reported. At least one policemen was killed and…