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VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA HAS DISPLACED MORE THAN 800 PEOPLE


Violence by criminal gangs battling over drug trafficking areas has displaced more than 800 people in northwestern Colombia, the United Nations said... READ MORE

19th February, 2018 20

COLOMBIA'S FARC SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN OVER SECURITY FEARS


Colombia's former FARC Marxist rebel group has temporarily suspended its campaign for upcoming parliamentary elections due to security threats to its candidates... READ MORE

10th February, 2018 388

COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL TIGHTEN VENEZUELA BORDER CONTROL


Brazil has received around 40,000 Venezuelans in its northernmost state, Roraima... READ MORE

9th February, 2018 170

COLOMBIA TIGHTENS BORDER AS VENEZUELANS FLEEING ECONOMIC CRISIS AT HOME SURGE


Colombia migration authorities say there are an estimated 600,000 Venezuelans currently in Colombia -- double the number six months ago... READ MORE

9th February, 2018 3

TILLERSON PRAISES COLOMBIA AID TO VENEZUELANS, ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS


Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shake hands during a joint news conference in Bogota, Colombia February 6, 2018... READ MORE

7th February, 2018 131

SAUDI ARABIA CORRUPTION CRACKDOWN NETS $130B FROM NATION'S ELITE


TODAY Paying the piper in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has officially ended its anti-corruption blitz after extracting more than 130 billion from some of its richest citizens... READ MORE

30th January, 2018 142

COLOMBIA'S FORMER GUERILLA LEADER LAUNCHES PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN


Rodrigo Londono is the first presidential candidate of a new political party formed by FARC's members in Colombia... READ MORE

28th January, 2018 547

FORMER COLOMBIAN GUERRILLA LEADER 'TIMOCHENKO' LAUNCHES PRESIDENTIAL BID


Two ex-combatants were recently shot to death while campaigning for a FARC congressional candidate in northwestern Colombia... READ MORE

28th January, 2018 0

COLOMBIA BOMB ATTACK KILLS AT LEAST FIVE POLICE, WOUNDS DOZENS


Colombia has myriad crime gangs, some which operate across large swaths of rural territory and others in major cities... READ MORE

27th January, 2018 324

COLOMBIA EVICTS OVER 200 HOMELESS VENEZUELANS FROM SPORTS FIELD SQUAT AS CROWDS FLOOD BORDER


Colombia on Wednesday evicted over 200 homeless Venezuelans who had been sleeping in a sports field in its border town of Cucuta, highlighting growing unea... READ MORE

25th January, 2018 1

EX-REBELS BUILD HOTEL TO RECREATE GUERRILLA LIFE


Colombia peace Former Farc rebels build hotel to recreate guerrilla life... READ MORE

14th January, 2018 342

COLOMBIA LAUNCHES MILITARY TASK FORCE TO COMBAT CRIME GANGS


Scores of crime gangs and right-wing paramilitary groups jostle with the dissident FARC for control of the drug trafficking routes to the Pacific... READ MORE

12th January, 2018 6

IN LATIN AMERICA, JOHN KELLY TRAINED FOR A JOB SERVING TRUMP


In Latin America, John Kelly trained for a job serving Trump... READ MORE

8th January, 2018 1151

'IT'S A PERVERSE SYSTEM': HOW COLOMBIA'S FARMERS ARE REFORESTING THEIR LOGGED LAND


As the Farc demobilised, deforestation soared by 44 percent in 2016 with a rush of land-grabbing to plant coca and clear land for cattle ranches... READ MORE

29th December, 2017 503

MORE THAN 100 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS KILLED IN COLOMBIA IN 2017, UN SAYS


More than 100 human rights defenders have been killed in Colombia this year, according to the United Nations, which urged more accountability and better protections... READ MORE

21st December, 2017 1432

PABLO ESCOBARS HIT MAN POPEYE ACCUSED OF VIOLATING PAROLE


Colombian authorities are seeking to re-arrest a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 54

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112 DEAD AFTER RIVERS OVERFLOW, TOPPLING HOMES


People help carry an injured woman after mudslides following heavy rains, in Mocoa, Colombia... READ MORE

1st April, 2017 25470

U.S. SANCTIONS VENEZUELAN VICE PRESIDENT ON DRUG TRAFFICKING


The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday against Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami... READ MORE

14th February, 2017 16491

BRAZILIAN GOALIE IN PLANE CRASH CALLED WIFE JUST BEFORE DYING


Minutes before he took his last breath, Marcos Danilo spoke to his wife from a hospital bed in Medellin, Colombia, according to multiple Brazilian news outlets... READ MORE

30th November, 2016 10276

COLOMBIA'S CONGRESS RATIFIES PEACE DEAL WITH FARC REBELS


President Juan Manuel Santos has said there won't be a second referendum... READ MORE

1st December, 2016 9819

SANTOS CALLS FOR 'RETHINK' OF WAR ON DRUGS


The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to call for the world to rethink the war on drugs... READ MORE

10th December, 2016 6857

SCORES KILLED AS LANDSLIDES DEVASTATE COLOMBIA'S MOCOA


Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, who flew to Mocoa on Saturday to oversee rescue efforts, said at least 154 people were confirmed dead... READ MORE

1st April, 2017 5569

COLOMBIA LANDSLIDE LEAVES AT LEAST 254 DEAD AND HUNDREDS MISSING


The Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, arrived in Mocoa on Sunday to survey the crisis... READ MORE

3rd April, 2017 4760

BATTLE FOR THE MOTHER LAND: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA FIGHTING FOR THEIR LANDS


Article one of the peace accord guarantees agrarian reform and states that land taken during the conflict will be given back to its rightful owners... READ MORE

29th October, 2017 4174

NIDIA GONGORA: THE AFRO-COLOMBIAN SINGER CONFRONTING MACHO MUSIC CULTURE


Nidia Gongora the Afro-Colombian singer confronting macho music culture... READ MORE

27th July, 2017 4150

DOZENS MISSING AFTER TOURIST BOAT SINKS IN COLOMBIA


At least six people died in the incident which occurred near the town of Guatape, roughly 45 kilometers 28 miles east of Medellin, one of Colombia's biggest cities... READ MORE

26th June, 2017 3785

AMERICAN COCAINE USE IS WAY UP. COLOMBIA'S COCA BOOM MIGHT BE WHY.


Most of the Colombian cocaine is smuggled through Mexico by the country's powerful drug cartels... READ MORE

4th March, 2017 3230

RESCUE TEAMS RACE TO REACH SURVIVORS


Colombia's security forces say they are searching for hundreds of missing people after heavy mudslides left at least 254 dead... READ MORE

2nd April, 2017 3034

HUNGRY VENEZUELANS FLOOD BRAZILIAN TOWNS, AS THREAT OF MASS MIGRATION LOOMS


Brazilian government services are buckling under the weight of the sudden influx of Venezuelan migrants... READ MORE

2nd January, 2017 2695

COLOMBIANS HAVE FOR YEARS GROWN AMAZING COFFEE. FINALLY, THEY'RE DRINKING IT.


In Latin America, the better-coffee trend is percolating well beyond Colombia's borders... READ MORE

22nd October, 2017 2179

LEAKED TAPE SHOWS PLANE 'RAN OUT OF FUEL'


The plane slammed into a mountainside near the Colombian city of Medellin late on Monday... READ MORE

30th November, 2016 2143

COLOMBIA'S CONGRESS APPROVES HISTORIC PEACE DEAL WITH FARC REBELS


Gratitude to Congress for its historic support of Colombians' hope for peace, Santos tweeted after the vote in the lower house... READ MORE

1st December, 2016 2042

COLOMBIA PLANE CRASH: FLIGHT DATA EXAMINED AS CHAPECOENSE FANS MOURN


Emotional pain resonated across the region over the loss of much of the Chapecoense soccer team from southern Brazil... READ MORE

30th November, 2016 1901

PRESIDENT SANTOS OF COLOMBIA: YOU HAVE TO DRAW A LINE BETWEEN PEACE AND JUSTICE


Nobel Peace Prizewinner, President Juan Manuel Santos, talks to Isabelle Kumar about why bringing peace does not always bring popularity at the polls... READ MORE

28th June, 2017 1892

COLOMBIA DEPORTS U.S. TOURIST WHO WAS STRANDED AT A BOGOTA AIRPORT FOR THREE MONTHS


Her goal was to travel to Jordan via Spain, but she ran out of money in the southern Colombian city of Cali... READ MORE

5th January, 2017 1850

CHAPECOENSE PLANE CRASHED WHEN OTHER AIRCRAFT IN EMERGENCY WAS ALLOWED TO LAND FIRST


The Avianca co-pilot said the air traffic controller's voice broke and the crew of the Avianca plane began to cry... READ MORE

1st December, 2016 1673

AT LEAST 193 KILLED, 202 INJURED IN COLOMBIA LANDSLIDES


Since December, more than 90 people have died in neighboring Peru which has been lashed by torrential rains sparked by the so-called Coastal El Nino phenomenon... READ MORE

2nd April, 2017 1638

HONG KONG LEADER DISMISSES CARRIE LAM'S HOPE OF SCRAPPING TESTS


The mudslides slammed Mocoa on Friday after days of torrential rain in the Amazon basin area town of 40,000... READ MORE

3rd April, 2017 1582

PLANE WITH BRAZIL'S CHAPECOENSE SOCCER TEAM CRASHES IN COLOMBIA, 75 DEAD[1]


Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were on board a plane carrying 81 people that crashed in Colombia killing 76 people, police said on Tuesday... READ MORE

29th November, 2016 1503

MOCOA: RESCUERS HUNT FOR SURVIVORS AS DEATH TOLL RISES


Search and rescue teams dig through mud after devastating landslides triggered by heavy rains kill more than 200... READ MORE

3rd April, 2017 1352

COLOMBIA PLANE RAN OUT OF FUEL PILOT SAID BEFORE CRASH


Distraught fans gathered around the team's Conda stadium in Chapeco, a city of about 200,000 people in southern Brazil... READ MORE

1st December, 2016 1223

THE FRIGHTENING ISSUE THAT COULD DESTROY COLOMBIA'S PEACE DEAL


Colombian authorities acknowledge that at least 58 community leaders and social activists were assassinated in 2016... READ MORE

4th January, 2017 1144

VENEZUELANS CROSS INTO COLOMBIA AS CRISIS DEEPENS


At 05 00 in the morning, a steady stream of Venezuelans heads into Colombia... READ MORE

28th September, 2017 1128

CHAPECOENSE AIR CRASH: COLOMBIA INVESTIGATES FUEL LINK


Colombian officials say evidence is growing that a plane crashed near Medellin because it ran out of fuel... READ MORE

1st December, 2016 1091

COLOMBIA LANDSLIDE: SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING AFTER MUD DELUGE KILLS HUNDREDS


Jose Albeiro Vargas last saw his grandson the night fierce rain unleashed havoc on this small city surrounded by rivers and mountains in southern Colombia... READ MORE

4th April, 2017 986

COLOMBIA PROBES MOCOA LANDSLIDE AS DEATH TOLL TOPS 300


They are among the 314 still missing, a figure provided by President Juan Manuel Santos in a national speech on Wednesday... READ MORE

6th April, 2017 859


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