UN report highlights journalist murders in Colombia
A new report by UNESCO, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, highlights threats to journalists in Colombia, noting that four reporters were killed in the country in the last…
A new report by UNESCO, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, highlights threats to journalists in Colombia, noting that four reporters were killed in the country in the last…
An unknown armed group on Sunday carried out a raid on a village in the northern Colombian department of Corboda, murdering seven people including three minors, reports Colombian media. The…
Fifty-four members of neo-paramilitary drug gangs were arrested and twelve were killed in an armed forces operation in northern Colombia, the government secretary of the Antioquia department told Caracol radio…
A report released by Cordoba’s education secretary reveals that some 1,000 children did not return to school this year after their families were displaced by conflict in the northern Colombian…
Colombian authorities seized a ton of cocaine, reportedly destined for Mexico, in a rural area in the northern Colombian department of Cordoba. Police said the drug shipment has a street…
A Canadian NGO has offered to work with the Colombian government to stop the murder of teachers in the northern department of Cordoba, El Heraldo reported on Wednesday. CoDevelopment, a…
Female employees of the governor of Colombia’s Cordoba department have been banned from wearing short skirts and low-cut tops to work, reports El Tiempo. The ban, according to the department’s…
Authorities in Colombia’s northern Cordoba department confirmed Sunday night’s riots were caused by an 18 hour power cut and resulted in three deaths. The power cut took place in the…
Colombian authorities Saturday arrested the suspected leader of Los Paisas, one of the country’s leading paramilitary drug gangs. Jairo Luiz Dias, also known as ‘Mincho’ or ‘El Profe’, was arrested…