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Canada and Colombia Sign Free-trade Agreement
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a speech during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in Lima. (Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)Canada and Colombia signed a...
View ArticleLandslide Victory for New President in Colombia
Former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, won the second round of presidential elections in a landslide victory on Sunday. Santos received 69 percent of the vote, while his opponent Antanas...
View ArticleEmergency Surgery for Colombia VP Day Before Presidential Meeting With Venezuela
After barely two days in office, the newly inaugurated vice president of Colombia, Angelino Garzon was taken to the hospital for an alleged heart attack Monday morning where he underwent emergency...
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Colombia and Venezuela Agree to Try Diplomacy
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (R) shakes hands with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a joint press conference announcing that their countries resumed diplomatic relations at the...
View ArticleTwo Miners Trapped, Two Dead in Colombia
While the world celebrates the rescue of 33 miners in Chile last week, in Colombia the dangers of mining were again highlighted by the unsuccessful attempts to rescue two miners and the deaths of two...
View ArticleDeath Toll in Colombia Landslide Rises to 47
The confirmed death toll from Sunday’s mudslide in the Colombian town of Bello reached 47, with some 80 people still missing, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Antioquia State Emergency...
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Colombia Bid Could Legalize Cocaine
Colombian anti-narcotics police seize packages containing some 5 tons of cocaine from an illegal laboratory October 13, 2011. (Guillerm Legaria/AFP/Getty Images)Legislators in Colombia have proposed...
View ArticleColombia’s FARC Releases 10 Hostages
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Tuesday released 10 police and military hostages, with some having been in captivity for as many as 14 years. “It is certainly a step in the right...
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FARC Leader Claims It Is Not Weakened
Colombian soldiers conduct a patrol across a field in a mountainous area in Miranda, Cauca department, Colombia, on January 18, 2012. The Colombian army created the Apolo joint task force with area of...
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Formed to Fight Rebels, Colombian Security Forces Turn Mafioso
A military police officer stands guard at the Apiay air base in Colombia next to the corpses of FARC guerrillas killed in a joint operation by the Colombian army, air force and police on March 27....
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Terrorists Attack Former Colombian Minister
Police officers inspect the wreckage of vehicles after a bomb attack on the motorcade of Colombia's former Interior and Justice Minister (2002-2004) Fernando Londono. The ex-minister was injured and...
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Colombian Volcano Erupts, Spewing Ash and Gas
The crater of the volcano Nevado Del Ruiz smolders Nov. 17, 1985, three days after its eruption, which destroyed the mountain town of Armero. Over 25,000 people died in that eruption. (Jonathan...
View ArticleEx-Colombian Admits Ties to Terrorist Group
A former Colombian general pleaded guilty on Monday to having ties with a right-wing paramilitary group that the U.S. considers a terrorist organization. The retired general, Mauricio Santoyo, turned...
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US-Colombia Row Over Flammable Chinese Herbicide
TO GO WITH AFP HISTORY BY GUILLERMO BARROS Farmers walk across a coca plantation in the mountains of the department of Cauca, Colombia, on June 21, 2012. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/GettyImages) A Chinese-made...
View ArticleColombia’s ‘Queen of Cocaine’ Assassinated
Griselda Blanco, a Colombian drug lord who was once described as the “queen of cocaine” for essentially spearheading the cocaine trade in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s, was...
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Most-Wanted Colombian Drug Lord Captured
Captured drug lord Daniel Barrera. (Colombian National Police) An infamous Colombian drug lord, considered perhaps the most powerful cocaine trafficker in the country, was captured Tuesday in...
View ArticleColombia Seeks Answers for Missing Soldiers
Colombia’s oldest rebel group should provide answers on the whereabouts or situations of around 60 missing soldiers, the government said. “There are at least 60 of our men who are missing. Many of them...
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Colombian President’s Cancer Operation Successful
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos accompanied by his wife Maria Clemencia Rodriguez de Santos, waves to the press as he enters the Santa Fe Foundation Clinic in Bogota on Oct. 3, to undergo...
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Colombia, FARC to Hold Peace Talks in Oslo
Colombia's government head of negotiators Humberto de la Calle (R) waves while boarding a plane in Bogota, Colombia, on Oct. 16. Peace talks will take place with leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
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FARC Accused of Attack After Ceasefire
Colombian soldiers are seen before leaving for the mountains in Caloto, Cauca department, Colombia, on July 21, during combat with FARC guerrillas. (Luis Robayo/AFP/GettyImages) Colombian Marxist...
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Internally Displaced Persons Increased 2.4M in 2012
WASHINGTON—The number of people who have been forced to flee their homes due to armed conflict, human rights violations, or natural disasters, to seek shelter elsewhere in their own country was...
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How the FARC Gave Birth to the State in the Colombian Jungle
This piece by Lorenzo Morales at La Silla Vacía shows, with concise and beautiful prose, the process through which the FARC impose themselves on local peoples in Colombia, becoming the de facto rulers...
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Justin Bieber Gets Neck Tattoo
The singer sports some new ink–check out what he got. Plus, get a behind-the-scenes look at One Direction’s tour.
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Shakira Becomes Most Liked Celebrity on Facebook (Video)
Shakira has beaten Eminem — who has 91.9 million Facebook likes — and Rihanna, who has 89 million, to become the most liked celebrity on Facebook. The Colombian beauty described the achievement as...
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After 50 Years of Atrocities, Could FARC Unilateral Ceasefire Be True?
HAVANA—Peace negotiators for Colombia’s largest rebel group announced an indefinite, unilateral ceasefire Wednesday, saying guerrillas will refrain from staging attacks so long as they aren’t targeted...
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Latin American Criminals Have Found a Low-Risk, Lucrative Trade in ‘Express...
On a daily basis, people all over Latin America are victims of “express kidnapping”—they are taken and held hostage for an hour or several hours, while the kidnappers take their credit cards for a...
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Colombia’s President Traveling to Cuba to Promote Peace
BOGOTA, Colombia—Saying that “peace is near,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced a surprise trip Wednesday to Cuba for a key meeting with government peace negotiators trying to wrap up...
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FARC-Colombia Peace Treaty Can Only Bring the Peace of Cemeteries
It has now been a little more than three years of lies, secret deals, and broken promises since the so-called peace process between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
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Recent Elections in Latin America Carry Heavy Consequences
At the end of October, four important elections occurred in the Western Hemisphere. Argentina and Guatemala held presidential elections; Colombia held local and municipal level elections. (Haiti also...
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Colombia Finds What May Be World’s Largest Sunken Treasure
CARTAGENA, Colombia—President Juan Manual Santos on Saturday hailed the discovery of a Spanish galleon that went down off the South American nation’s coast more than 300 years ago with what may be the...
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Is Colombia Finally on the Verge of Lasting Peace?
Colombia has been the site of one of the world’s longest internal armed conflicts. Its population has been trapped between different legal and illegal armed groups who have uprooted millions of people...
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UN OKs Mission to Monitor Future Ceasefire in Colombia
UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution to establish a political mission to monitor and verify a future ceasefire in Colombia that would end Latin America’s...
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More Than 3,000 Pregnant Women Infected With Zika Virus in Colombia
The Zika virus is gathering ever more attention as it spreads across the globe. It reached the United States last month, and the first case in Europe was confirmed a few days ago, the BBC reports. In...
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President Santos: Colombia May Miss Peace Deal Deadline
BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos acknowledged Wednesday that his government may miss a fast-approaching deadline to sign a peace deal with rebels and end the main part of the...
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Drug Lord ‘Caracol’ Known as Latin America’s New ‘El Chapo’ Arrested in Colombia
Authorities have captured drug lord, Gerson Aldair Gálvez Calle, also known as “Caracol,” announced Colombian officials on May 1. Gálvez, was previously described by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime...
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Colombia Seizes 8 Tons of Cocaine, ‘Largest Quantity of Drugs in History’
Colombian authorities seized eight tons of cocaine in a banana field on May 15, officials announced. The cocaine was found a few meters from the mouth of the river Currulao in a banana farm in Uraba,...
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Adidas Misspells Colombia In Copa America Ads
Adidas issued a mea culpa on June 7 for misspelling Colombia in advertisements showcasing the team’s new jerseys for the Copa America tournament. “We value our partnership with the Colombian Football...
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This Bizarre River in Colombia Is Called ‘Liquid Rainbow’ (Video)
There is a river in Colombia that has been called the “liquid rainbow” and the “river of five colours” for good reason. The 62-mile-long Caño Cristales near the town of La Macarena contains brilliant...
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Thousands of Venezuelans Enter Colombia for Food, Medicine
SAN ANTONIO DEL TACHIRA, Venezuela—Caravans of Venezuelan families drove for hours Sunday on bandit-plagued highways to a checkpoint on the Colombian border where they’ll be able to cross and hunt for...
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Three Canadians Caught in $30 Million Drug Bust on Cruise Ship in Australia
Two women and one man were arrested on Sunday for smuggling over $30 million worth of cocaine into Australia on a cruise ship. Canadian nationals Melina Roberge, 23, Isabelle Lagacé, 28, and Andre...
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