Rival drug gangs shoot-out leaves 6 dead
Six men were killed and one was injured during an armed confrontation between members of two rival drug trafficking organizations in a the Bajo Cauca region in Colombia’s central Antioquia…
Six men were killed and one was injured during an armed confrontation between members of two rival drug trafficking organizations in a the Bajo Cauca region in Colombia’s central Antioquia…
Colombian drug trafficking capos “Los Comba” offered a retired police colonel over $250,000 to implicate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s brother Santiago Uribe in dealings with Antioquian paramilitaries, claims police commissioner…
A Nobel prize-winning Argentine and a group of prominent international lawyers say that Colombia must investigate allegations that President Alvaro Uribe’s brother led a paramilitary group, and warned that the…
An alleged FARC attack on two electricity towers in the north of Antioquia on Sunday left four villages without power. Local authorities say that members of the FARC’s 36th front…
The criminal chamber of Colombia’s Supreme Court began preliminary investigations Wednesday into the alleged fraud which occured in the congressional elections in March, reports El Espectador. Officials involved in the…
A Colombian court Monday sentenced four members of the armed forces to 33 years in jail for the 2005 murder of a farmer in Argelia, Antioquia department, reported by the…
Colombia’s police say they have extended the hunt for “Valenciano,” one of the paramilitary leaders held responsible for the deadly gang wars going on in Medellin and the northern departments…
Over 18,200 Colombians went missing during 2009, up from almost 15,700 in 2008, according to an annual report issued by Colombia’s forensics agency, Medicina Legal, Radio Santa Fe reported Wednesday. The…
Three pilgrims were killed and 110 were injured when lightning struck Monday afternoon during a religious ceremony in San Rafael, in the central Colombian department of Antioquia, Caracol Radio reports.…