Night falls on Mocoa: 234 found dead and 200 still missing
As night fell after one of Colombia’s darkest days in recent history, rescue workers had pulled 234 dead from the mud and rubble left by an avalanche that devastated the southern…
As night fell after one of Colombia’s darkest days in recent history, rescue workers had pulled 234 dead from the mud and rubble left by an avalanche that devastated the southern…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday declared a state of emergency in the southern city of Mocoa after mudslides killed at least 154 people while hundreds were reported missing. While visiting the…
At least 154 people were killed, 174 injured and 200 are missing after floods hit Mocoa, the capital of Colombia’s southern Putumayo province, the Red Cross reported Saturday. A large part of the city was…
Coca growers in the south of Colombia have been on strike for almost a month, claiming the government is eradicating crops without providing substitute crops as promised. The protests have been…
Colombia is expanding its land restitution program into former no-go areas in the country’s war-torn south aiming to return land stolen from farmers by illegal armed groups, the government has…
A candidate governor for the Conservative Party in south Colombian was arrested Wednesday on charges he worked together with local drug trafficking groups.
Police in central Colombia on Tuesday seized 214 kilograms of cocaine from an ambulance that was traveling from the south of the country to the Caribbean coast.
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Monday allegedly stopped a caravan of 25 oil trucks, forcing 19 of them to dump their crude oil in the middle of the Amazon…
The Colombian discovered a high-capacity drug lab allegedly used by rebel group FARC to produce ecstasy and cocaine.