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The Public Ministry of Bolivia have raided offices of airline Lamia. The CEO and two other company employees were arrested. Last week, a plane crashed this Bolivian charter company down in Colombia.

Venezuelan women stabbing in droves across the border to sell their hair in Colombia. With the proceeds they buy food, diapers and other necessities, where the economic crisis in their country glaring lack is.

In the stadium of the Brazilian football Chapeco Cooking is Saturday held a memorial ceremony for the victims of the plane crash in Colombia. The coffins containing the bodies of the deceased football players and staff will be located on the Arena Conda field. With three aircraft Friday brought the remains of the victims from the Colombian city of Medellin to Chapecó.

French police have intercepted a shipment of a thousand kilos of cocaine. The drugs have a street value of about 100 million euros. Ten people were arrested, among whom certainly one Dutchman.

The authorities in Bolivia on Thursday revoked the permit to fly airline Lamia. Monday crashed a plane of the Bolivian charter company down in Colombia.

The plane that crashed in Colombia had no fuel on board. According to a leaked audio recording. The tape is a pilot can be heard asking repeatedly for permission to land due to electronic failure and a shortage of fuel.

In the device Monday (local time) crashed in the Colombian city Medellín were 81 people: 22 soccer players of Brazilian soccer Chapeco Ensenada, 28 technical supervisors, 22 journalists and nine crew members.

A nice gesture from Atletico Nacional to the Finals would play the Copa Sudamericana against Chapeco Genocide, the club which is hard hit by the plane crash in Colombia. Atlético has asked the South American Football Conmebol to bestow the title and the cup to the stricken club.

The 31-year-old defender Zampier Helio Neto of the Brazilian club Chapeco Armenian alive beneath the crashed unit in Colombia found. He is one of six survivors, who are up to serious after the plane crash. One of the six is ​​now deceased. The death toll is thus provisionally revised 75.

Several football clubs on Tuesday held a minute's silence for the victims of the plane crash in Colombia, where a large part of the selection of Chapeco Armenian was killed. Include FC Barcelona and Real Madrid were before the training discussed the tragedy near Medellin. The two Spanish superpowers are Saturday clash at Camp Nou, but on Wednesday both first stand a cup match on the program.

Brazilian President Michel Temer has expressed its sympathy to the victims of the plane crash in which many members of the Brazilian top football team were killed.

The football world is following the plane crash in Colombia mourning, with the Brazilian club Chapeco Armenian is involved.

A plane with 72 people aboard missing in Colombia. According to Associated Press, the Colombian authorities have launched a rescue operation. On board would sit a Brazilian soccer team. That has not been confirmed.

Spanish police have arrested at the Madrid airport a 29-year-old Dutch woman who carried four shoes in her suitcase a total of 180,000 euros. The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported Friday that the woman had stepped in Brussels at the airport and was on his way to the Colombian city of Medellin.

The Colombian government and the FARC Marxist signs Thursday again a peace agreement. That President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday (local time). The agreement must still be approved by the Colombian Congress, but the end of the 52-year civil war seems still in sight.

The Colombian government and FARC reached a new peace agreement. Which reported negotiate mutually Saturday after six weeks, after the first agreement was rejected in a referendum.

The government of Colombia has suspended peace talks with the small Marxist guerrilla movement ELN. The group must first release Odin Sanchez, a politician who is held hostage since six months.

The Colombian government and the guerrillas of the FARC sit again at the negotiating table to reach a peace agreement. This is necessary to get out of the impasse that arose after the Colombian population voted in a referendum against an earlier agreement. On that was negotiated four years, but a majority of citizens found the conditions too mild for FARC members.

A Venezuelan bomber intercepted a Colombian commercial aircraft and forced to leave the Venezuelan airspace. It is a passenger plane from airline Avianca, which were 200 passengers and was en route from Madrid to Bogota. That made the Colombian Defense Ministry Saturday (local time) known.

The Colombian authorities have so far this year over 300 tons of cocaine seized. Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said this weekend that never had such a large quantity being cocaine was seized in a year.

The Colombian army has one rebel slain in a military operation against the ELN guerrillas and captured four rebels. This was announced by the military. The BBC reports that 24 rebels surrendered and were willing to lay down their arms.

The Dutch project No More Ransom against cybercrime has already helped 2,500 people in the first two months after launch. The victims saved a total of 1.35 million, the Dutch police announced on Monday.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has an agreement with the FARC movement across the cease-fire extended to the end of the year.

The Government of Colombia also begin peace talks with the ELN, the smaller of the two guerrilla organizations in the South American country. That, representatives of the two sides on Monday in Venezuela. The negotiations must be conducted in Ecuador.

The police in the Colombian Bogota to arrest a 35-year-old fugitive Italian, who had betrayed his hiding place by his passion for football. That Italian media report.

The only price I want is peace. With that statement responded to the leader of the Colombian rebel group FARC on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 to President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, the President of Colombia. As many as 376 people, groups and organizations have been nominated this year.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has warned that the country ' has entered a gray zone '' and that the cease-fire with the FARC expires at the end of this month. Santos consults Wednesday with his predecessor and political rival Alvaro Uribe on how to proceed with the peace process nan Sunday's referendum. Uribe was the driving force behind the rejection in a referendum of the peace agreement Santos had reached with the FARC.

The Colombian government and the Marxist guerrilla organization FARC have returned Tuesday to the negotiating table in Havana. They signed last week the peace agreement, reached after four years of difficult discussions, but Sunday was painfully rebuffed by the population. A small majority rejected the treaty into a referendum because the conditions were too mild for FARC members.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday acknowledged that the people have rejected the peace agreement with FARC rebel movement in a referendum. He immediately said that the cease-fire remains in force. A slight majority of Colombians showed Sunday against the peace plan to negotiate with the government after four years was signed with the rebels.