Colombia’s general anti-tax strike has turned into a mass protest movement and become violent, writes Laura Brown
The pandemic has transformed the way we live, attend school and do our work, and our cities must change accordingly
Colombia said on Tuesday Farc guerrillas slit a state governor’s throat hours after they kidnapped him during a brazen raid.
Colombian troops have killed a Farc guerrilla commander accused of ordering extortion and bombings around Bogota, said authorities.
High-profile hostage Ingrid Betancourt was shocked when aid workers supposedly transporting her to a new location turned out to be state soldiers.
The founder and chief commander of Colombia’s Farc rebel force, Manuel Marulanda, has died after more than 40 years fighting the state from jungle and mountain camps. If…
Thousands of Colombians were evacuated around the Nevado del Huila volcano in the south-west part of the country on Tuesday after an eruption of ash and gas that caused no damage…
Colombia’s military said on Saturday its troops had killed a top rebel commander in an attack on a jungle camp across the border in Ecuador in a severe blow to Latin America’s…
A Colombian woman freed last week after six years as a rebel hostage arrived in Bogota on Sunday and headed straight for a reunion with her son, Emmanuel, born in a jungle camp…
An airborne operation to pluck two hostages from their rebel captors deep in the Colombian jungle lurched back to life on Thursday, after a botched handover attempt collapsed 10…
Colombian officials on Friday showed recently seized videotapes of rebel-held hostages, among them three United States defence contractors and a former presidential candidate —…
Colombia and Venezuela faced the worst crisis in their relations in years on Monday after the Colombian president accused Venezuela of seeking to install a Marxist regime in his…
Colombia upset the leader of the South American qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup with a 2-1 victory on Tuesday in Bogota over Argentina. Argentina still tops the table to…
Nine people, including four children, were shot and killed at a farm in southern Colombia where the owner had been threatened by guerrillas over extortion payments, police said.…
The bodies of at least 211 victims of right-wing paramilitaries were found on Saturday in mass graves in southern Colombia. ”We are again shocked at how gruesome this war is,”…
Several thousand people were evacuated after a volcano erupted in southern Colombia, triggering an avalanche that swelled rivers and threatened local communities, authorities…
It is 2am on Sunday and the phones never stop ringing at the Caracol radio station in northern Bogota. The light banter that normally entertains listeners to the graveyard shift…
One of the world’s most hunted drug traffickers — whose criminal organisation compared in size to that of late drug lord Pablo Escobar — has been arrested in Brazil as part of a…
Beta was upgraded to a hurricane by the United States National Hurricane Centre early on Saturday as it continued to whip the Colombian island of Providencia with high winds and…
Colombia’s government questioned its own airline security measures and ordered an immediate review after a father in a wheelchair dodged a security check to sneak hand grenades…
