The small extremist guerrilla movement ELN (National Liberation Army) investigates the disappearance of two Dutch programmakers in the Catatumbo region, in northern Colombia. The ELN reported this on the internet without confirming that the two were in power of the group, Colombian media reported Tuesday. ELN proposes to 'clarify this case' in the message.
Three men in Medellín are married to each other. It is for the first time that three people in Colombia are really connected.
To the great satisfaction of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the FARC guerrilla movement has handed over 30 percent of its weapons arena to the United Nations. 'An historic day,' Santos responded to the further demilitarization of the rebels.
The Colombian President Santos has decided that it was sunk three centuries ago, San José's Spanish galleon. Aboard is probably a treasure that is estimated to be between 2.5 and 15 billion euros.
Cheick Tioté died on Monday at the age of thirty. The midfielder broke down during the afternoon training of the Chinese Beijing Enterprise. He died later in the hospital, confirming his case lawyer Emanuele Palladino to Squawka News. There is nothing known about the cause of his death.
In Panama, 64 people were arrested for suspicion of drug and drug trafficking. Four tonnes of cocaine have been seized, after a two-year trial.
Pope Franciscus does not visit South Sudan this year. According to Italian media, the trip was delayed for safety reasons.
The first twelve warriors of the FARC guerrilla movement have officially returned to Colombian society. They got Friday at a ceremony in the Colombian capital of Bogota certificates from the United Nations confirming that they had deposited the weapons.
Tens of thousands of believers Friday in the presence of paus Franciscus participated in the so-called Cross at the Colosseum in Rome. The procession, in which the suffering of Jesus Christ symbolized, was heavily protected.
In Colombia, more than three hundred people still missing since the landslides and floods in the town of Mocoa. The death toll has now risen to 293, said President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has any family who has been affected by landslides and floods in Mocoa promised a compensation of 18 million pesos (over 5,600 euros). He promised to make quick work of rebuilding the city, according to the Colombian radio station RCN Sunday.
Colombian police said Sunday more than six tons of cocaine seized. The drugs had to be shipped from the northern Colombian port of Barranquilla to Spain, as did President Juan Manuel Santos announced via Twitter. Cocaine in Europe would have a street value of 200 million euros.
By mudslides at least 43 children were killed in southwestern Colombia. A total of 210 people died, which is less than previously thought. That said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos during a visit to the disaster area.
A Colombian who survived the flood in Colombia with his wife and seven-month-old son, said there was barely time to escape the water.
Certainly fourteen people have been killed in a landslide in southern Colombia. At least sixty people were injured, reported the authorities. It is still unclear how many people are missing.
Gangs in Colombia, dozens of activists slain since an end to the protracted civil war in the country. Because the FARC rebels withdrew, defeated other armed groups to influence.
sure nineteen people died in a bus accident in Argentina. Among the dead are three children, the BBC reports. The accident happened in the Andes, near the border with Chile.
Italian police have rounded up an international drug gang that wanted to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Italy for 1.6 billion euros. Police arrested 68 people.
The 15-year-old Colombian Johan Ramirez, who helped save the lives of six players of Brazilian soccer, is thanks for that received a new home for him and his family.
A Canadian who had been missing for five years is 10,000 kilometers from where he was last seen resurfaced in Brazil. He would have enormous distance traveled on foot over the years.
About three hundred rebels from the Colombian FARC weapons will not resign because of the peace agreement signed with Colombia. A commander of the Colombian army has declared Sunday.
A seventeen-year-old boy has been arrested in southern Colombia on suspicion of thirty killings. He would have committed since he was twelve. The infamous boy nicknamed Frijolito (Bean) acquired and he was wanted for some time.
The second largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN), has paved the way with the release of a kidnapped politician for peace negotiations with the government.
In the fight against the worst wildfires in the history of Chile achieved the first successes. The forestry department (Conaf) could report Sunday night local time are extinguished eleven of the 124 fires and 55 others under control. The conflagrations are the authorities so far eleven people died and laid down a certain area of 3650 square kilometers in the ashes.
After zikavirus now concern an outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil, especially in the state of Minas Gerais. The Ministry of Health there has registered in recent weeks, 272 suspected cases of yellow fever, of which 71 were fatal. The authorities have more than 2 million doses of vaccine available to prevent further spread of the disease.
An accident with a suspension bridge in Colombia has claimed Monday at least eight lives. Another fourteen people were injured when one of the ropes to which the bridge Villavicencio hung snapped and the structure turned, reported Colombian media.
In a crash five crew members were killed in a cargo plane in Colombia. On the Internet have appeared violent images of the accident. To see how bystanders filming on her after getting hit when the device comes too late from the ground on takeoff.
Brazilian defender Alan Ruschel Chapeco Genocide will again play football as soon as possible. Ruschel survived like two teammates the air disaster of almost three weeks ago in Colombia, where a large part of the selection was killed. The 27-year-old defender was allowed to leave the hospital Friday in Colombia and flew back to Brazil.
The goalkeeper Danilo Chapeco Armenian was posthumously named player of the year in Brazil. In online voting Monday under Brazilian football fans Danilo got 48 percent of the vote.
