Policemen abuse woman after she reported sexual abuse
Four Colombian policemen allegedly struck a young woman who reported a case of sexual abuse. Apparently the woman sought the help of police in the northern department of Santander after…
Four Colombian policemen allegedly struck a young woman who reported a case of sexual abuse. Apparently the woman sought the help of police in the northern department of Santander after…
Visitors to Santa Marta will touch down in a larger, more comfortable airport by 2014, El Heraldo newspaper reported Thursday. The remodeled Simon Bolivar airport is slated to cost $21…
In a busy day in Colombian courts, 53 people belonging to several major drug gangs were sent to prison. Colombian authorities dealt a massive blow to neo-paramilitary group the Urabeños,…
Brakes malfunctioned in a fatal bus crash that injured three and killed two in the northern department of Santander Wednesday. According to witnesses, the bus was parked on a hill…
Hired assassins shot and killed a former mayor in the central Colombia department of Santander Sunday, reported local media. The gunmen arrived at the estate of Deogracias Pinzon Suarez, former…
Smuggled poultry products are endangering Colombians’ health and harming farmers, the industry’s national federation said Friday. Illicit poultry is entering Colombia from Venezuela, where avian flu killed at least five…
Colombian authorities confirmed the number of dead from a building collapse in the northern department of Santander had risen to at least eight, reported El Espectador Friday. After initial reports…
Almost 95% of murders of trade unionists in Colombia have gone unpunished, the United Nations revealed Tuesday. Between 1984 and 2011, 2,800 unionists were killed, 216 were disappeared, 83 were…
The Colombian government has not committed itself to rejecting a gold mining application in the Santurban nature reserve, reported Colombian media Friday. Located in the northern departments of Santander and…