Colombia ignoring mass grave with estimated 450 army executions victims: report
Colombia’s authorities are ignoring a mass grave with at least 450 victims of executions by...
Tag: Valledupar
Peace in Colombia can only be achieved with bullets: Local councillor
A councillor in a northern Colombian city has created controversy during a town hall meeting after...
Santos offers $27K reward for information on journalist threats
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday offered a $27,300 reward for details on the...
‘Anti-Land Restitution Army’ threatens journalists in northern Colombia
The neo-paramilitary “Anti-Land Restitution Army” has threatened eight journalists in...
Colombia’s Vallenato Festival crowns new king
Colombia’s famous Vallenato Legend Festival on Wednesday crowned talented accordion player...
Santos to spend night in ‘free housing’ apartment
President Juan Manuel Santos will spend his Friday night in one of the apartments destined for Colombia’s poorest citizens as part of the government’s free housing initiative. In 2012 the Santos government committed to the...
46th Vallenato Festival returns to Valledupar
The Vallenato Legend festival, one of Colombia’s biggest popular culture events, will return to the city of Valledupar in the northern Colombian department of Cesar between April 26 and 30. The festival was founded in 1968...
Three young men killed within a 12-hour-span in north Colombia
Within a span of 12 hours, three people were assassinated Tuesday in the Colombian city of Valledupar, the capital of the northern Cesar department. The three victims, aged 17, 19 and 21 respectively, were killed Tuesday in...
Colombia crowns new Vallenato King
Colombia Monday named a new Vallenato King at the 45th annual Festival de la Leyenda Vallenato in Valledupar. Fernando Rangel Molina took the crown five years after winning the Junior King title at the event in northern Cesar...
Vallenato hero Diomedes Diaz hospitalized with pneumonia
Famous Colombian Vallenato singer Diomedes Diaz and his family have been hospitalized with pneumonia in the northern department of Cesar, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday. The singer was brought to a medical center in...
Valledupar prisoners to be moved following sanitation crisis
Colombian authorities have ordered the relocation of prisoners at the Valledupar prison, following the discovery of traces of feces in the prison’s food and a deficit in potable water, newspaper El Espectador reported...
Traces of feces found in north Colombian prison food
Colombia’s Congress will call for the closure of a prison in Valledupar, the capital of the northeast Colombian department of Cesar, after discovering appalling conditions that include a lack of water and traces of feces...
