The Indigenous Organization of Antioquia (OIA) has denounced murders and harm to indigenous community members that have occurred over the past two weeks, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. The most recent…
Colombian authorities have detained 740 alleged members of drug-trafficking groups in the first 100 days of 2011, as well as seizing 89 tons of narcotics, according to a National Police…
Colombia’s National Police said Saturday it has arrested one of the country’s ten most wanted criminals. Hector Efren Meneses Yela, alias “Guara” or “Rodrigo” is suspected of being one of…
Authorities extradited eight Colombian citizens to the United States on drug trafficking charges Thursday morning, Colombian media reported. According to Director of the Colombian Judicial Police (DIJIN) Carlos Ramiro Mena,…
Seven suspected members of the neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” were killed in a fire-fight with the army’s Joint Chiefs of the Caribbean unit in the northern department of Cordoba, reported…
A hodgepodge of wars being fought between security forces, guerrillas and drug trafficking gangs has made Cauca in the southwest of Colombia, one of the most dangerous departments in the…
A grenade attack by a suspected drug gang left seven injured in a municipality 180 miles north of Medellin, central Colombia, RCN Radio reported Monday. Two unknown individuals on a…
Colombian authorities have captured Juan Esteban Sanmartin Rodriguez, alias “Mateo,” a leader of the drug-trafficking gang “Los Rastrojos,” several media reported Friday. The director of Colombia’s judicial police (DIJIN), General…
The Colombian National Police’s continued offensive against criminal organizations has resulted in 23 arrests, including a leader of the “Los Rastrojos” drug trafficking gang, newspaper El Espectador reported Friday. Police…