Thanks to Medellin and Cali, Colombia boasts least homicides in decades
Partly due to spectacular drops in homicides in Medellin and Cali, Colombia’s National Police said that 2014 was the country’s least violent year in three decades.
Partly due to spectacular drops in homicides in Medellin and Cali, Colombia’s National Police said that 2014 was the country’s least violent year in three decades.
Exactly on the day Mayor Gustavo Petro denied the presence of neo-paramilitary groups in Bogota, the city’s public television station received death threats from neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras.”
At least 350 private Colombian cameras have been accessed by “hackers,” according to local media after global privacy watchdogs warned about a Russian website transmitting signals of thousands of private cameras…
The number of gangs in Bogota has exceeded 1,300 while the city government cuts funds aimed at reducing crime, a local councilman said.
Following a year-long steady drop, the homicide rate in Colombia’s third city Cali increased with a vengeance, threatening the impressive improvements in crime reductions the city had shown only months…
Three people were fatally shot and one lynched in a spontaneous outburst of violence in the Caribbean coast city Barranquilla on Sunday.
A report from Colombia’s highest government human rights official says rights violations continue to plague the port city of Buenaventura, despite the ongoing intervention by the Colombian military.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) held a special briefing for US congress members on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Colombian port city of Buenaventura.
A new English language travel website on Colombia, claiming to do its best to improve the country’s image abroad, was launched Thursday.