Colombia’s police on Saturday said they had arrested a suspected FARC rebel convicted of taking part in the 2003 kidnapping of three American military contractors. The defense workers weren’t released…
Prison guards in the south of Colombia on Wednesday protested overcrowding in their penitentiaries, working conditions for staff and low wages, among other issues.
The crash site of an airplane has been discovered in central Colombia after it disappeared from radar screens at midday on Thursday, government authorities reported on Friday.
Four policemen have been killed and another four people were injured in two alleged FARC attacks on security forces in the south and southwest of Colombia, authorities said.
A former FARC leader confessed that he participated in the kidnapping of three American military contractors and held them hostage for almost two years.
Officials in southwest Colombia reported Saturday that 14 election officers were detained for several hours by rebels active in the area, according to national media.
In order to promote “transparency” in government, a congressional candidate from the south of Colombia decided to strip naked as part of his election campaign for the House of Representatives.
A truck driver in Colombia’s guerrilla-ridden state of Caqueta, Dario Polania, has spent the last 10 years trying to convince authorities that he is not, contrary to accusations, a major front…
Colombian police have intercepted a shipment of 2.6 tonnes of cocaine believed to have been smuggled out of the drug-producing regions under the cover of Colombia’s Christmas season festivities.