Colombian authorities have seized $5,740,200 fake U.S. dollars, reported local media Thursday. Police found counterfeit $100 bills in Pereira, the capital of the central western Risaralda department, where they arrested…
A joint operation between Colombia’s Air Force and Army dealt another blow to guerrilla group FARC in the country’s west Thursday. Following three months of intelligence work, Colombian forces raided…
Flooding hit the western department of Risaralda Wednesday although no injuries were reported, according to local media. Heavy rains affected the town of Mistrato, sweeping away cars and motorcycles. No…
524 indigenous people displaced by Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict will leave Bogota to return to their homes in the western departments of Choco and Risaralda after having reached an agreement…
The Colombian government charged 100 soliders with killing civilians, Radio Caracol reported Thursday. In a practice known as creating “false postitives,” the soldiers allegedly killed at least 50 civilians, including…
Heavy storms in a central Colombian village have left one dead and 17 homeless. The body of a 76-year-old woman washed up in the village of Morelia, Risaralda Department, despite…
Police captured the alleged murderer of Colombian journalist Argemiro Cardenas Agudelo in western Risaralda Department this Sunday. Jhon Alexander Jaramillo, alias “Jhon,” accepted the charge of aggravated murder and apologized…
A Colombian journalist was shot dead in broad daylight Thursday on a street in western Colombia, reported Colombian media. Argemiro Cardenas Agudelo was manager of Metro Radio in Dosquebradas, the…
The Colombian Comptroller General Roberto Hoyos Botero rules that negligence caused the fatal explosion of an Ecopetrol pipeline last December. 33 people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed and many homes…