Southwest Colombia marches against state neglect and drug violence
Locals in Colombia’s southwestern Tumaco massively took to the streets in a mass demonstration against ongoing violence and persistent state neglect in their city.
Locals in Colombia’s southwestern Tumaco massively took to the streets in a mass demonstration against ongoing violence and persistent state neglect in their city.
An alleged ELN attack in Colombia’s southwest left more than a quarter of a million people without power on Wednesday after an electrical tower was knocked down. Witnesses say they…
Colombia police on Wednesday arrested a dissident FARC guerrilla who allegedly controlled drug trafficking activities in the country’s most important coca-growing region. According to the Defense Minister, Jefferson Chavez, a.k.a.…
Colombian authorities arrested 15 prosecution officials for working for a drug trafficker tied to both FARC guerrillas and AGC paramilitaries. The two prosecutors, two assistant prosecutors and 11 investigators were…
Two people died and 23 were injured when unknown assailants threw a grenade into a bar early Tuesday in Colombia’s most southwestern city, Tumaco. Tumaco’s government secretary, Edwin Palma, told W Radio that…
The southwestern Colombian port city of Tumaco woke up from a traumatic night on Thursday morning after a number of alleged FARC attacks both inside and outside the city.
A combination of an increase in FARC attacks on public security forces and infrastructure, combined with public protests and a closed road has put the people of the south Pacific town in…
Colombia’s southwestern city of Tumaco, mostly populated by Afro-Colombians, has experienced more than three times the national rate of murders from 2011 to 2013 as a result of guerrilla atrocities, according…
Local police say 12 people, including children and a pregnant woman, were injured by the explosion of a grenade launched at a police post in Tumaco, a port city in…