Cali’s Cristo Rey statue
Colombia’s third largest city Cali is best viewed from above. The vantage point from Cristo Rey, the country’s largest statue of Christ, is beautiful and well worth the trek for…
Colombia’s third largest city Cali is best viewed from above. The vantage point from Cristo Rey, the country’s largest statue of Christ, is beautiful and well worth the trek for…
A soccer player was shot dead in the city of Cali last week – putting the city’s problem with social violence in the spotlight once again. Alejandro Peñaranda, a 24-year-old…
The United Nations is monitoring trials against 30 Colombian social leaders who were arrested on Friday after the Prosecutor General’s Office accused them of ties to ELN rebels. The leaders…
The prosecution in Colombia’s third-largest city Cali is lambasted by the family of a woman who was called to testify over domestic abuse almost two weeks after she was murdered…
The assassination of a community leader from Colombia’s largest port city on the Pacific has increased tensions between the country’s black minority and the national government. Community leader Temistocles Machado…
Colombia’s Olympic weightlifter Edwin Mosquera was shot dead in southwest Colombia on Saturday following an alleged altercation in a nightclub, reported local media Monday. Mosquera, 32, who finished seventh in…
Nearly 1,900 people have been forcibly displaced from their homes this year by illegal armed groups in western Colombia, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the…
A woman from Cali has been dubbed Colombia’s “gold queen” after police accused her of exporting more than three metric tons of illegally mined gold to the United States. Mara…
Torture houses. Dismemberment. Kids as young as 10 recruited into the illegally armed groups. Sexual violence rife. Innocent people killed. A population terrorized. When people read my recently released novel,…