Authorities in Bogota arrested 14 policemen on drug dealing charges. According to the the prosecution, the officers and patrolmen offered protection to drug dealers in Colombia’s capital’s most notorious drug district.
Slightly over 200 people were kidnapped in Colombia in 2015, a 27% drop compared to the year before, according to Defense Ministry statistics.
Colombia’s second city Medellin, once the most violent place on earth, has fallen from the world’s most dangerous cities ranking.
Homicides in Colombia dropped for the sixth consecutive year, according to the South American country’s chief of police.
Authorities in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, found the dead body of a 27-year-old US citizen in an apartment in the affluent south of the city.
The use of airstrikes was one of the main strategic elements that severely reduced the FARC’s military capacity ahead of peace talks with the rebel group. Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups are the next target for airstrikes.
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday said he will step up security operations on the border to curb “those horrible and terrifying crimes coming to us from Colombia.”
A bomb went off early Wednesday morning at the main office in Bogota of SaludCoop, a health intermediary that is being liquidated after gross mismanagement and fraud.
Police found the remains of three more women and one man in the hills around Bogota. This could mean that the “Monster of Monserrate” serial killer killed more than seven women…