Indigenous leaders found murdered
Authorities in southern Colombia have found the bodies of two indigenous leaders who were shot dead by unknown assassins, local media reported Sunday The victims, indigenous councillor Ramiro Inampues and…
Authorities in southern Colombia have found the bodies of two indigenous leaders who were shot dead by unknown assassins, local media reported Sunday The victims, indigenous councillor Ramiro Inampues and…
Colombia’s Institute of Mining and Geology (Ingeominas) issued a red alert warning that a second eruption of the Galeras volcano is imminent, after it erupted around 4AM Wednesday. Diego Gomez from…
Colombia’s vice-President and the U.N. human rights office in the country demand the investigation of recent paramilitary death threats in the south, center and west of the Andean nation. “The…
More than 7,500 Colombians have been displaced by the country’s armed conflict so far in 2010, according to a United Nations report, which says that “serious gaps [in] the protection…
Ecuadorean Vice Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas Monday stressed the “important symbolic role” of the meeting scheduled between Colombia’s and Ecuador’s foreign ministers in the Colombian border town of Ipiales on…
A presumed FARC attack on an oil pipeline in the southern Colombian Nariño department is causing an environmental emergency as crude oil spills into two local rivers. Ecopetrol, Colombia’s largest petroleum…
Four men and three women, believed to be members of guerrilla group the ELN, voluntarily surrendered to the Colombian army in the municipality of Barbacoas, in the violence-ridden Nariño department.…
Colombia’s prosecutor general is considering suspending the exhumation of the bodies of victims of paramilitary violence, due to concerns for the safety of officials working in the field, El Espectador…
A ringleader of the infamous “Los Rastrojos” gang known as “R-9” was captured in Pasto, in the Nariño department. The government had offered a COP150 million ($80,000) reward for information…