AIDS on the rise in Colombia
Nearly 200 new AIDS cases are being reported every month in Colombia, as the syndrome continues to expand in the face of ineffective government policies and campaigns. “The rate of…
Nearly 200 new AIDS cases are being reported every month in Colombia, as the syndrome continues to expand in the face of ineffective government policies and campaigns. “The rate of…
Two Colombian engineers nearly halfway around the globe from their homeland, until recently the world’s kidnapping capital, were kidnapped by a tribe in northeast Yemen Friday. The pair, who were…
The Colombian army’s top general, accused in a Washington Post article Wednesday of having links to paramilitaries, is an “honest soldier of the motherland” president Álvaro Uribe said Friday. “General…
Don’t expect the billowing nudes of Colombian artist Fernando Botero to relieve your physical pain, say scientists. More precisely, if you happen to have a laser focused on your hands…
Native Italians Elisabetta and Zamo Pavani came to Colombia 90 days ago, lugging suitcases filled with toys for two children they hadn’t yet seen but intended to adopt. Yet today,…
FARC co-founder Manuel Marulanda Vélez, a.k.a. ‘Tirofijo’, was buried in Venezuela after dying of a heart attack in the arms of his wife, a deserter from the guerrilla group said…
Colombian authorities paid 400 million pesos to a variety of sources for the information that lead to the capture of Luis Arnulfo Tuberquia, a.k.a. ‘Memín’, allegedly one of the country’s…
Two demobilized paramilitaries preparing to give testimony against a paramilitary band led by ‘Don Mario’ are believed to have been poisoned by a “witch” the day before their court appearance…
A top Colombian general, lauded for his successes against the FARC and trusted by Washington, has been accused by a former paramilitary fighter of collaborating with death squads in Medellín,…