Huge strike planned for October 7
Unions members from across Colombian will converge on the country’s major cities October 7 to protest the president Álvaro Uribe’s economic policies and support the current judicial and sugarcane cutters…
Unions members from across Colombian will converge on the country’s major cities October 7 to protest the president Álvaro Uribe’s economic policies and support the current judicial and sugarcane cutters…
A major Colombian transportation company heir arrested yesterday on charges of homicide and forced disappearance, believed to have been perpetrated in league with paramilitaries, was the owner of 20 firearms…
A womens rights activist, her five-year-old grandson and his parents were gunned down in their central Medellín home Wednesday night. Olga Marina Vergara, 55-year-old member of the Medellín branch of…
The ex-Medellín prosecutor and brother of Colombia’s Interior and Justice Minister was arrested Thursday for suspected ties to the narcotrafficker and paramilitary known as ‘Don Mario.’ The arrest of Guillermo…
Ingrid Betancourt, who spent six years as a hostage of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas, said Wednesday she favors dialogue to end terrorism. Betancourt said there are two schools of thought on…
Colombian president Álvaro Uribe will leave New York for El Salvador Friday to meet with his counterpart Elías Antonio Saca and participate in the National Private Business Meeting. In other…
Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, plans to drill a new exploration well in Colombia in 2010, Brazilian newspaper Gazeta Mercantil reported, citing Abilio Paulo Pinheiro Ramos, head of the oil company’s…
Colombia’s new national prison director wants to allow every prisoner in the country to use the internet access and a cell phone, arguing that phones are already common in prisons…
Members of CTI, the police force of Colombia’s prosecutor’s office, detained the owner of the largest transportation companies in the country at his farm Thursday on suspicion of being a…