Colombia’s government to introduce bill to demobilize paramilitaries and urban gangs
Colombia’s government is set to introduce a bill that would allow the mass demobilization of...
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Colombia’s urban peace processes at risk
Homicides, massacres and legislative disorder threat attempts to negotiate peace with gangs in...
Locals from western Colombia beg for help amid surge in violence
Locals from Colombia’s western Choco province are begging for help amid a humanitarian...
Poverty in Colombia | Part 1: the starvation capital
Poverty in Quibdo soared to the point that three in 10 people in the city in west Colombia are...
Colombia’s first major hospital down after coronavirus forces personnel quarantine
The main hospital in Choco, Colombia’s largest province on the Pacific coast, largely shut...
ELN guerrillas burn 4 more vehicles in west Colombia
Rebel group ELN has allegedly destroyed four trucks in western Colombia, disconnecting much of the...
Fire destroys 40 homes in western Colombia city
Some 40 homes were destroyed in a fire in Quibdo, the capital of the Choco state in western...
San Pacho Festival takes hold of western Colombian capital
The San Pacho festival, a celebration held in the western department of Choco, is underway and...
West Colombia police station bombed; 1 policemen killed
Unknown assailants have bombed a police station in the western Colombian city of Choco, killing...
Colombia’s San Pacho festival makes UNESCO’s ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ list
The San Pacho festival, held every year in western Colombia, was declared an “Intangible Cultural Heritage” for humanity Wednesday by UNESCO. {japopup...
Western Colombia to kick off San Pacho festival
Over two weeks of partying to celebrate the feast day of Quibdo’s patron saint San Pacho will kick off September 20th in Colombia’s capital of the western Choco department. Saint Francis of Assisi is affectionately...
Colombia’s Choco aims to exploit tourism potential
Colombia’s Pacific department Choco is trying to convert itself into a potential tourism center to generate more employment in the region, reported Caracol Radio Wednesday. Though the western department of Choco currently...
