The regime of the Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro must be 'more powerfully and efficiently surrounded.' This is what the Colombian President Iván Duque said at a meeting of Latin American...
A few hundred members of the Venezuelan security forces have deserted since Saturday and fled to Colombia. That is what the Colombian migration service reports. There are fewer than the...
US Vice President Mike Pence plans to meet opposition leader Juan Guaido of Venezuela in Bogota on Monday. He will do that at a meeting of the Lima Group, the...
A former commander of the FARC who has been in hiding for half a year has heard about it via a video message. In it, Ivan Marquez accuses the Colombian government of violating...
Colombian security forces have saved the niece of the world-famous writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. The kidnappers had claimed 4.4 million euros for...
The Usuga Clan, the largest criminal gang in Colombia, has issued a one-year armistice for the holidays. In addition, they have called on other gangs to do the same, to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve.
The Ecuadorian prosecutor is going to sue former president Rafael Correa for the failed kidnapping of opposition politician Fernando Balda in 2012. Judge Daniella Camacho announced on Wednesday that there is enough evidence that Correa was the supposed brain behind the kidnapping attempt to start a trial against him.
Kidnappers in Colombia have claimed 4.4 million euros in ransom in exchange for the release of a great cousin of the world famous writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez who died in 2014. The police announced that on Wednesday.
The area in Colombia where coca plants are grown has never been so great. According to a report published by the United Nations on Wednesday), the area in the South American country grew by 17 percent in 2017 to 2,170 square kilometers, which is approximately the area of the Dutch province of Limburg. This corresponds to a potential coca leaf harvest from which almost 1400 tonnes of cocaine can be extracted.
Approximately two million people in Central America may face severe hunger in the near future. Due to drought, harvests have failed in countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Small farmers have therefore not harvested enough to eat and sell, and there is not enough stock left to pass the time until the next harvest.
A Colombian police dog who has discovered enormous amounts of narcotics has been transferred for safety reasons. A drug gang has put a price of 200 million pesos (more than 59,000 euros) on the head of the German Shepherd Sombra, say sources within the intelligence services according to the BBC.
The Conservative presidential candidate Iván Duque has won the presidential elections in Colombia. He received 54 percent of the votes against 42 for his leftist rival Gustavo Petro, as it turned out after 97 percent of the votes had been counted.
Colombia seized a submarine off the coast with two tons of cocaine on board. The vessel was intercepted by naval ships after a one-hour offshore yacht in the Pacific Ocean, the justice department reported Saturday.
The United States has asked the government of Colombia to hand over one of the former leaders of the FARC guerilla movement. The American embassy has submitted an official extradition request for Seusis Hernandez, who is also called Jesus Santrich.
The Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's government gives Venezuelan identification cards to Colombians. Maduro then tries to bring them into Venezuela so they will vote for him during the presidential election of next Sunday, says the Colombian government.
Two Ecuadorian journalists who were kidnapped with their driver are all three dead. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said that Friday.
The former FARC rebels in Colombia have fiercely reacted to the arrest of one of their former leaders. 'With the arrest of our comrade Jesus Santrich, the peace process is at the most critical point and threatens to lead to a real failure,' said FARC politician Ivan Marquez against journalists.
The FARC came out of the parliamentary elections in Colombia on Sunday as the big loser. It was the first time that the former 'narcoguerrilla' participated in elections and barely won any votes.
Colombia and the United States will work together to halve the production of cocaine and the cultivation of coca in the South American country over the next five years. That is what both countries agreed.
At least five Colombian soldiers were killed on Tuesday by a bomb attack, carried out by the Marxist ELN rebels. Also, more than ten soldiers were wounded by the attack near the border with Venezuela, according to the army.
Venezuelans are increasingly involved in attacks by ELN rebels in Colombia. That said the Colombian minister Luis Carlos Villegas (Defense), who is going to consult with his Venezuelan counterpart Vladimir Padrino about the security measures on the more than 2200 kilometers long border.
On board a private jet, 500 kilograms of cocaine were found at the airport in Hampshire, England. The plane was from Bogota, Colombia.
The ELN rebels are, according to the Colombian authorities, behind recent attacks on police stations. The explosions caused seven deaths last weekend. Dozens of people were also injured.
A shooting in a bar in the Colombian town of Yarumal in the province of Antioquia has killed seven people. According to the police, five armed persons entered the premises and the fire opened to the customers. She suspects that it is about reckoning in the criminal circuit.
A landslide in Colombia has killed at least 13 people. The victims were in a bus that fell through the avalanche into a ravine. There is a baby among the dead, reports the emergency response service.
Two former fighters of the Colombian FARC were killed after campaigning for a political candidate of the movement.
A helicopter crash in northern Colombia has killed ten people. On board of the defense helicopter, besides eight soldiers, two civilians were also present. The aircraft was on its way to Caucasia, where the occupants wanted to carry out an inspection at a warehouse of the army.
Ten construction workers were killed when a bridge under construction collapsed in the middle of Colombia. That reported the disaster response service of the country.
The United Nations is prepared to mobilize international aid for Colombia to meet the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees. This is what UN chief António Guterres said on a weekend visit to the Colombian capital Bogota.
A Colombian employee of an oil company was kidnapped by ELN rebels. The abduction was a few days after the expiry of a cease-fire with the government, just when UN top executive António Guterres visits the country, reports the BBC. According to the police, the man was taken from his workshop in Saravena near the border with Venezuela.
