Death threats and violence against Colombian journalists have been replaced by lawsuits and legal summons, said press representatives this weekend at the 64th General Assembly of the Inter-American Press Society…
Eighteen Colombian citizens were extradited to the United States on charges of narcotrafficking and related crimes, announced the Police Directorate of Criminal Investigation Saturday. The extraditions, along with one other…
Relations between Ecuador and Colombia once again took a turn for the worse after Colombian president Álvaro Uribe’s announced Friday he was skipping a regional meeting hosted by his neighbor.…
Hoping to meet business associates, increase their clients, find representation in Colombia and ultimately make a killer profit, 21 German businesses participated in Bogotá’s International Fair. The aim was to…
Murders in Medellín are up more than 27 percent since the extradition to the United States of 14 top paramilitary chiefs last May, as middle managers battle for power…
A number of NGOs have condemned as “arbitrary and unjustified” the expulsion of German activist Christina Friederika Müller from Colombia. At the time of her expulsion, Müller was accompanying…
Authorities in Antioquia and Córdoba are digging up more remains of presumed paramilitary victims than the forensic labs can handle, reported El Heraldo. Although the number of experts dedicated to…
Colombia’s security service decommissioned one million counterfeit dollars from exchange houses in the western municipality of Itagüí in the department of Antioquia. The western part of the country was chosen…
Colombia’s peso dropped 1.6 percent to 2,188. 5 per dollar from 2,155 yesterday, according to the Colombian foreign- exchange electronic transactions system, known as SET-FX. The yield on Colombia’s benchmark…