Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office suspended Valle del Cauca governor Juan Carlos Abadia for illegally supporting the candidacy of former agriculture minister Andres Felipe Arias in the Conservative Party primaries. According…
Colombian police have discovered that a drug trafficker wanted by the U.S.’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is already incarcerated in a prison in Colombia’s southern Valle del Cauca department. U.S.…
Colombian police announce the arrest of fifteen people accused of exporting FARC-produced drugs to foreign markets, El Espectador reported Wednesday. According to authorities, the men, who were arrested in eastern Colombia,…
Detectives from Colombia’s security agency DAS Tuesday seized 600 kilos of cocaine in the Yumbo municipality in the souther Valle de Cauca department, Caracol Radio reported. The haul was found…
Alejandra Barrios, director of the Bogota-based Electoral Observation Mission, said on Wednesday that Colombia’s March 14th legislative elections suffered from “severe irregularities.” Barrios said that the delays in announcing results,…
The Colombian government is offering a COP300 million ($150,000) reward for information leading to the capture of those responsible for the car bomb attack that killed nine and injured 51…
According to local police commander Gustavo Adolfo Ricaurte, leftist guerilla group the FARC torched seven semi-trucks Monday night in the western Colombian Valle del Cauca department. The incident, which occurred…
Police in the eastern Colombian department of Valle del Cauca arrested a 66-year-old farmer found to have conceived seven of his seventeen children with his own daughter, reported El Tiempo…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced Friday that it will open formal investigations into Horacio Serpa and Juan Carlos Abadia, governors of the Santander and Valle del Cauca departments, for allegedly…