Megateo, the drug lord who evaporated after getting shot
Authorities on Monday claimed that “Megateo,” one of Colombia’s most feared drug lords, had been shot by a sniper. Nevertheless, police and soldiers looking for the former guerrilla have no…
Authorities on Monday claimed that “Megateo,” one of Colombia’s most feared drug lords, had been shot by a sniper. Nevertheless, police and soldiers looking for the former guerrilla have no…
Farmers in the north of Colombia are threatening protests after reports that the government is considering the resumption of chemical aerial fumigation of coca, just months after a ban of the potentially carcinogenic pesticide glyphosate.
Presumed guerrillas have opened fire at two civilian helicopters that were flying repairmen to the site where leftist rebels had damaged an oil pipeline in the north of Colombia, state-run…
A series of alleged FARC attacks on oil infrastructure in the northeast of Colombia forced state-run oil company Ecopetrol to suspend operations while displacing more than 50 families.
Kidnappers on Saturday released the daughter of the director of the UNP, Colombia’s agency in charge of protecting threatened persons.
The 11-year-old daughter of the director of the NPU, Colombia’s government agency in charge of protecting threatened civilians, has been kidnapped, authorities said Thursday.
A group of 28 policemen asked their commanders for permission to retreat from a small town in northeast Colombia after the FARC destroyed the police station there, leaving the officials as sitting ducks, newspaper El…
Hundreds of farmers held a peaceful demonstration outside the ombudsman’s office in Bogota Thursday to protest the government’s inaction on enforcing rural workers’ rights legislation passed in 2014.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, has denied accusations it publicly displayed the amputated leg of a soldier near a high school.