A 2 000 500 totals the number of farmers have shifted from Ituango, Valdivia, and those sidewalks Puerto Antioquia, Cauca and the Guaimaro, towards the town of Taraza, Antioquia, rejecting the spraying of illicit crops. The authorities warn that the coming hours the displaced farmers would arrive and that the situation could get worse, because there are shortages of food and medicine. Read Article
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Revelations released by Wikileaks question the truthfulness of Operation Jaque (Check), presented by the Colombian Government as a perfect military maneuver in 2008 that led to the rescue of 15 people held by the guerrillas. Wikileaks made public that on June 24, 2008, the US Embassy in Bogota issued a diplomatic cable about an alleged […]
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A 15-year-old died after he was hit by a bull during a holiday of corralejas the village of Las Piedras, in the jurisdiction of San Estanislao, Bolívar. Read Article
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Men elite body of the Colombian police rescued in the Colombian department of Putumayo, bordering Ecuador, an indigenous child 3 years old, kidnapped by common criminals, authorities said Monday. Read Article
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Colombia’s textile and apparel makers saw sales plummet 13% to $6.1 billion last year from $7 billion in 2008. The loss of manufacturing jobs to cheap Chinese imports is raising howls of protest across Latin America. Read Article
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Colombia’s truck drivers will lift their road blockades after reaching a breakthrough deal with the government, reported newspaper El Espectador. The 15-day strike came to an end after an intermediation from vice president Angelino Garzón with the Colombian Truck Drivers Association (ACC), the story reported. Read Article
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Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said this week that military forces know the exact hiding place and movements of the FARC guerrilla maximum leader, Alfonso Cano, and brushed aside any chance that he might escape. Read Article
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The administrator of the Panama Canal dismissed Wednesday the notion the key waterway could be under threat from a Chinese-backed project to build a new rail link across northern Colombia. Read Article
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The mystery surrounding the deaths of two men of foreign origin that fell into two different sites in the town of Palmyra, but so far have determined the cause of death. The first case became known to the 12:00 noon when a man got out with two suitcases from a taxi at the Calle 34 […]
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Colombia’s largest coal exporter, Cerrejon, sees Asian demand propelling more Colombian coal to Europe and that demand will also keep prices at current levels, the company’s president said on Wednesday. Read Article
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Antiriot police began assembling Wednesday in front of striking Colombian truckers, who for three days have been causing major traffic jams by setting up roadblocks on this capital city’s main arteries. The truckers’ strike, which began nearly two weeks ago over deregulation of the industry, involves the majority of some 200,000 Colombian truckers and is […]
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Colombia has a relatively small proportion of the world’s proven coal reserves. World hard coal reserves have been estimated at 411,321 million t, while those of Colombia are an estimated 6434 million t, or less than 2% of the world’s reserves. In terms of world mining statistics, a similar story emerges: world hard coal production […]
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Police in Colombia say they have captured a man they believe to be the financial brains behind one of the country’s main drug-trafficking rings. Police arrested Fredy Ricardo Santos Ramirez in central Colombia. Read Article
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The Colombian navy has seized a submarine believed to have been built to smuggle cocaine to Mexico. The 31m-long (100ft) fibreglass vessel was found hidden in a jungle area in Timbiqui, in south-westernern Colombia. Read Article
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The Colombian Government has hinted that its suspension of new requests for mining concessions may last longer than the initial six months. The calls for stricter Governmental supervision came in early February after a series of accidents and explosions in 2010 and 2011. A recent explosion at La Preciosa mine killed at least 20 people; […]
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China is in talks to build a “dry canal” linking Colombia’s Atlantic and Pacific coats by rail, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was quoted as saying on Sunday. Read Article
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Fighting between the Colombian rebel group FARC and the drug gang “Los Rastrojos” left at least 15 people dead, authorities said Friday. Read Article
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday condemned the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the rebel group’s kidnapping of two people on Wednesday evening after it released one hostage.Santos said that the new kidnapping even made him consider stopping the plan of FARC on the release of four more hostages still kept by […]
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Last January, I wrote an essay for The Nation on Washington’s integration of Mexico, Central America and Colombia into a “security corridor.” I called it a “rump Monroe Doctrine,” an explosive mix of militarism and neoliberal economics. Militarily, assorted bilateral and regional treaties are fusing the region’s military, intelligence, and judicial systems into unified, supra-national […]
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The CIA is alarmed: Chavez may soon become one of the major drug lords in Latin America. On February 9, former Mexican president Vicente Fox accused him of assisting the Mexican drug mafia which flooded the States with cocaine. Read Article
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The term “BACRIM” is not an invention of the press and analyst specializing in security issues, is a definition that the military authorities and police gave these new criminal groups in 2006, when it was formed under the responsibility of the Directorate of Security Police and National Police Rural an interagency coordinating office and information […]
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Representatives of the Awa indigenous people on Thursday reported five accidents with landmines on its guard in the southwest of the country that killed a member of their community. La muerte del awá fue al menos la segunda del año a causa del estallido de minas. Awa’s death was at least the second year due […]
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On the afternoon of 9 February, Marcos Baquero, a member of the municipal council of San José de Guaviare, was released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and handed over to former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a member of Colombians for Peace. […]
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Cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up destruction of rainforests in Colombia and threatening the region’s “hotspots” of plant and animal diversity, scientists are reporting in a new study. The findings, which they say underscore the need for establishing larger protected areas to help preserve biodiversity, appear in ACS’ journal Environmental Science […]
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said he is eyeing Colombia’s oil industry, as the world’s richest man boosts infrastructure investments outside his home country. Read Article
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The Colombian government on Tuesday reaffirmed its refusal to negotiate with the country’s Bacrim criminal gang and drug traffickers. High national security adviser Sergio Jaramillo said the country would not negotiate with those groups — mostly formed by demobilized paramilitary squad members in the previous administration. Read Article
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The messages are heard again in the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbios border. The armed group makes the invitations through the radio “Voice of the Resistance ‘, said Saturday the Ecuadorian newspaper’ The Universo ‘ “In a few weeks the station has penetrated guerrilla clearly in villages that are located along the border,” he says. Read […]
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U.S. Marines from a Security Cooperation Task Force (SCTF) held a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) subject matter expert exchange (SMEE) with Colombian marines from Colombian counter intelligence aboard the Colombian Marine Infantry Training Base, Feb. 2. Read Article
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A foreigner was arrested in Santa Marta in the San José de los Campanos is prosecuted for the crime of violent sexual intercourse with child under 14 and child pornography. The Englishman Paul Anthony Braislford was presented yesterday to Judge First Municipal Criminal functions guarantees that legalized the capture of the subject, who did not […]
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Opponents of gold mining in Colombia and its accompanying mercury pollution say social mobilization against the practice is growing. Read Article
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On 6 February hundreds of indigenous blocked the routes into the petrol-producing department of Arauca in north-east Colombia on the border with Venezuela. They were protesting the detention by the military of three of their leaders who are accused of links with the ELN. The protesters also called for the establishment of a permanent verification […]
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Noting that there is great concern for power and the actions that have reached the so-called criminal gangs, the government acknowledged that these illegal groups replaced the paramilitaries.Read Article
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Defendants facilitated the cultivation, production and marketing of drugs. First Criminal Judge Municipal de Buga (Valle) endorsed the request of the prosecution and intramural issued a security measure against eight former police officers for their alleged responsibility in the crime of conspiracy. Read Article
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According to Julio César Vidal leaders of these bands are willing to deliver weapons, roads and crops, even to extradite them if necessary. Bishop statements came during the inauguration of the National Assembly of Bishops, which will run until Friday. Read Article
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32% increase in the practice of kidnapping in Colombia during 2010, compared with the practice of crime nationwide during the preceding year. De 213 denuncias durante el 2009, se pasó a 282. Of 213 complaints in 2009, moved to 282. Common criminals were responsible for 57% of abductions in 2010, the FARC’s 23%, 12% ELN […]
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The Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, just ordered the suspension of military operations for 36 hours in an area south of the country to facilitate the operation of the release of the president’s Council of San Jose del Guaviare, Mark Baquero. Read Article
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Colombia’s defense minister proposes a strategy, including the creation of a Joint Task Force, aimed at destroying the infrastructure of criminal organizations throughout the country, El Espectador reports. Rodrigo Rivera presented the new strategy, known as “D6,” to President Juan Manuel Santos Monday. Read Article
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Six Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrillas turned themselves in voluntarily to army troops in a rural area in the southern province of Caqueta, the army said Sunday. Read Article
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Colombian troops found a cache of the FARC in the jungles of the southern department of Putumayo, bordering with Ecuador, which had nearly a ton of explosives, officials said. Read Article
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In the coming weeks will be intensified rainfall, by the beginning of the first rainy season of 2011, as he called Ricardo Lozano, director of the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, Ideam. Read Article
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Twelve people were injured and the partial destruction of the door of the church and a lodge, is the result of clashes between inhabitants of the municipality of Candelaria, Atlántico, and units of the Police ESMAD group. Read Article
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Urabá Guard units rescued 11 people, among whom are 10 foreign tourists and a Colombian, who were aboard a boat that drifted in the field of Narsi island in the municipality of Acandí, Chocó. In the traditional boat name “Elis 2”, built in fiberglass, sedesplazaban two Canadians, two Italians, a Briton, two Swedes, one Australian […]
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A new battalion of 600 men, come to reinforce the fight against the FARC in Huila. This is the ground combat battalion No. 13 ‘Cacique Timanco’, said General Henry Torres, commander of the Ninth Brigade. Read Article
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The strategy of bomb attacks against troops allowed the FARC to hit back on the tracks of Arauca, where the guerrilla group is still strong and ahead of a rebel offensive which has alerted the armed forces. They warn analysts on security issues after the attack occurred at dawn yesterday against an army patrol that […]
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The mayor said that despite the patrols in the area, nothing takes away the fear of the inhabitants. Girl Rafael Guzman said the situation on the presence of criminal gangs in their town is critical and was highlighted with the murder Wednesday night of two students of the Seine. Read Article
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The indefinite nationwide strike is called by the Colombian Truckers Association (ACC) to require the Government to keep the freight sector regulation. “We have a 90 per cent of the fleet kept,” said general secretary of the ACC, Ricardo Virviescas, for whom the call to cease its activities was taken in all regions of the […]
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Amid the peak Valentine’s Day flower season, U.S. agents in Miami are working overtime to make sure pretty love bouquets are not used as transportation by exotic South American pests or cocaine traffickers. Read Article
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The mayor of the municipality of Antioquia Briceño, in northern Antioquia, from today shall notify the voluntary evacuation order about 300 people who claim to be mines and farms which recently reached the Pescadero Ituango hydro apparently motivated by compensation to be gained from Macroproyecto.Read Article
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Three hundred weapons, fifteen phones, forty doses of marijuana, crack cocaine and twenty twenty of cocaine seized police during the storming of the prison of El Bosque in the south of Barranquilla. Read Article
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A total of fifty kilos of explosives were found by police officers in a vehicle that was abandoned on a road in township Caguan rural area of Neiva. Read Article
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UPS Capital®, the financial services arm of UPS (NYSE: UPS), today announced it has expanded its Latin American presence by opening new offices in Bogota, Colombia, and Lima, Peru, to help facilitate global trade. Utilizing in-country representatives to staff the offices, UPS Capital will be able to offer specific kinds of loans to qualified businesses […]
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Federico Lleras Hospital doctors quit after not being paid for four months. Most of the doctors are general practitioners who work in emergency services in a 500 bed hospital in Ibague. Read Article
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Ecuador has established two new military bases along the border with Colombia. They are designed to provided more security for Ecuadorian residents and to monitor guerrilla activity. Read Article
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Facundo Barfield has been linked to FARC since 2003, according to authorities. Tuesday was revealed the identity of other foreigners who are active within FARC. Facundo Barfield, an Argentine who joined the FARC since 2003, listed in order of battle of the mobile column Teofilo Forero. Read Article
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The commander of the XIV Brigade, Colonel Edgar Copola, confirmed that in the morning the FARC guerrillas triggered a truck bomb in Union Bridge, which connects the town with the town of Amalfi, Antioquia, Medellin was affecting mobility and the move to the dam Porce III. Read Article
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A new tragedy occurred this morning in a coal mine, this time in the department of Cundinamarca, which left five workers dead. The tragedy occurred in the mine “La Escondida, located in the municipality of Sutatausa, north of the department, where there was a loud explosion from methane gas accumulation. Read Article
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On 28 January the Colombian Minister of Defence, Rodrigo Rivera, and the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Bogotá, Christophe Beney, signed a security agreement governing the pending release of five persons being held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP). The FARC-EP […]
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WHEN last September government forces seized computer hard drives and memory sticks belonging to “Mono Jojoy”, the military commander of the FARC who was killed in an assault on his camp, officials said they had struck a gold mine of information about the inner workings of Colombia’s main guerrilla group. It turned out that they […]
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The Colombian navy says it has seized a boat smuggling more than a tonne of cocaine. Navy personnel chased the speed-boat along the Pacific coast of Choco province. Read Article
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Colombia on Monday identified three airports from which will come from and where will the helicopters with the humanitarian mission to receive the five hostages FARC guerrillas agreed to release, and said they are given all the security . Read Article
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EI condemns the brutal murder of Colombian teacher trade unionist, Manuel Esteban Tejada, on 10 January. His assassination brings the death toll to 27 teacher unionists who have been killed in Colombia in the past year. Manuel Esteban Tejada was affiliated to the Colombian teachers’ union, FECODE branch of Córdoba, ADEMACOR. He was a teacher […]
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Costa Rican authorities say they have dismantled a cocaine smuggling network that used fishing vessels to ship drugs from Ecuador and Colombia through Central America and into Mexico. Read Article
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Afiganistan desires to have crews from Colombia who have experience with the Russian MI helicopoters. Read Article
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Dr. Liliana M. Dávalos, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook, and her colleagues note that the pace of deforestation in Colombia has accelerated over the past 20 years, even as population growth has slowed and the economy has shifted from agriculture to other revenue sources. This increase in deforestation overlaps […]
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Colombian refugees across the border find sex is the only way for them to make a living. The oil workers in nearby Ecuador are the customers. Read Article – Video filmed in 2009
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24 COMMUNITIES AT HIGH RISK Country’s mayors have warned of increasing violent deaths in some municipalities in Colombia, by the actions of the former strongholds of paramilitary and guerrilla groups known as the BACRIM. Read Article
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Deputy Minister of Environment, Carlos Castaño, told RCN Radio that the Government expects to close by 2013, some 3 000 illegal mines currently in the country. “We identified these mines are illegal in 18 regions where this illegal activity, financed by illegal armed groups are also responsible for its operation and performance,” said Castano Uribe. […]
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This year is expected to double the sales of heavy trucks in Colombia, reaching more than eight thousand vehicles, however, the carriers say the nation’s highways will collapse by this phenomenon and because “are the roads in Latin America. Read Article
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More than 3000 individuals have arrived in Anorí, fearful of possible retaliation by the FARC for the fumigation of illicit crops and the installation of three Army bases in the northeastern population of Antioquia. Read Article
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An explosion at coal mine killed at least five workers in northern Colombia on Wednesday and trapped 16 more, the local mayor said. The explosion occurred in the same mine where another blast killed 32 workers in 2007. Read Article
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I was recently in my bed in rural Colombia when an explosion rocked my house. I decided to get out of bed. Heavy combat immediately ensued on the hill immediately adjacent to the village I live in, including shots from rifles, AK-47s, M-60s and occasional grenades. The combat on the “Hill of the Cross” between […]
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At his inauguration in August, President Juan Manuel Santos declared that he would end the long-running Colombian civil war once and for all by continuing the “Democratic Security” policies of his predecessor, Álvaro Uribe. This strategy, while producing gains against guerilla groups throughout the country over the past decade, has come at the price of […]
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Some 7,000 Mexicans have participated in a program through which the Colombian government trains Mexican soldiers and police in techniques for fighting drug cartels, according to an article in the Jan. 22 Washington Post. The administration of US president Barack Obama is encouraging this effort, and the US is paying part of the costs. Washington’s […]
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Colombia’s improved ties with Venezuela and neighbors to its south are just a few signs of the understated foreign policy shifts implemented by recently elected President Juan Manuel Santos – changes that may have positive implications for regional security and cooperation across Latin America. Read Article
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Colombian authorities over the past four months have closed 56 illegal gold mines and arrested 573 people, a police report stated. The report released Monday said that ’46 illegal deposits (have been closed, and) 573 people were arrested’, but it clarified that the majority of those people have been released on bail. Read Article
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Governments throughout Latin America are ramping up dengue prevention campaigns after 1.5 million people were infected and over 1,000 people in the region died of the disease in 2010. There have already been deaths from dengue fever this year, the most recent one in Perú, where the deaths are exceeding hospital capacity – and it […]
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Panama televesion network (TVN) has reported that FARC have been recruiting minors in Panama. The network provided an interview with a boy minor stating he had been recruited in the Darien province and spent three months with the FARC. In an interview with Panamian television network TVN, the boy said he had been recruited from […]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government has urged a private TV station to pull the plug on a Colombian soap opera that features a dog named “Little Hugo” and which it says insults Venezuela’s national pride. Named for its main character, “Chepe Fortuna,” the program also stars a loud and gossipy secretary named “Venezuela.” Read Article
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ELTIEMPO.COM learned that troops from the military unit during an operation against the seventh head of the Farc, they found the child, who was carrying a rifle who said that for several months had been recruited by the subversive organization. Read Article
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The director of traffic in Cartagena, Eliana Serge Bolaños, said that only basic bus service has been increase and that luxury and minubuses have remained the same. Read Article
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As a result of the heavy rains Santander, 80% of regional and intercity routes are almost destroyed. Much of the destruction has been due to landslides and fault lines. Alejandro Edher, High Commissioner for Reintegration and sponsor Santander to themes of winter, said “about 800 of 1,000 kilometers of regional roads and territory of Santander […]
Influenza A (H1N1) has claimed 305 deaths in Colombia since the first confirmed case in April 2009, while since that date the analysis performed in patients suspected to have generated positive 4782 this type of virus. The director of the National Institute of Health, Juan Gonzalo Lopez said that during 2010 there were 1,053 confirmed […]
Rail operations have restarted after 50 train cars carrying coal from Glencore’s Prodeco unit in Colombia derailed earlier this week, a private company in charge of the railway concession said on Saturday. Colombia is the world’s fifth largest coal exporter and Glencore’s [GLEN.UL] Prodeco unit is one of the Andean nation’s top three exporters of […]
A 61 year old Spanish tourist who contracted the H1N1 flu virus died on Saturday in Barranquilla, northern Colombia, where he was hospitalized from January 3, reported that health secretary Caribbean city, Humberto Mendoza. It is suspected the case of flu was contracted before entering Colombia. Read Article
This Friday, on 6 and 30 pm, while the top leader of FARC, alias Alfonso Cano , giving messages of peace through a video posted on the website Anncol , his subordinates carried out an attack was killed in a girl of only 12 years old, who was identified as Doris Adriana Mora. Read Article
On Thursday morning 30 individuals were robbed by three armed individuals while taking an unauthorized path to Bogota’s main attraction, Cerro de Monserrate . There were no injuries reported. One of the victims reported the incident to police who stated that the visitors knew they were not to take that path. The victim told a […]
The new Ambassador of Ecuador in Colombia Raul Vallejo, told reporters that the government of President Rafael Correa will not allow the establishment of camps by armed groups outside the law, “be they paramilitary, be they drug traffickers, whether the guerrillas ( o) any sign or any name. ” The diplomat, who arrived yesterday in […]
In Neiva on Thursday morning a bomb believed to be set by FARC exploded caused damages to 50 homes. There were no reported injuries. Apparently, the bomb may have been set by FARC for a farmer failing to pay extortion. Read Article
For 2010, vehicle sales reached 253,869, the most ever sold in a calendar year and a 37% jump from the 185,129 sold in Colombia in 2009. Read Article
Four active volcanoes is on yellow alert and type III (changes in the behavior of volcanic activity): Mount Machin, the snowcapped volcano Galeras and Huila and Ruiz. Cerro Machin, in Tolima, is scaring the people closest to the volcano, by the earthquakes that have been presented from the December 31, 2010. According to the latest […]
Narcotics Police seized 1.5 tons of cocaine in the port of Cartagena, which belonged to the illegal band The Urabaeños. According to Gen. Oscar Naranjo, director of the National Police, the drug valued at 7,200 million pesos was hidden in the roof of a container that was transported concentrate for dogs. Read Article
World Financial Group, Inc. recently learned of an email scam circulating in Colombia falsely stating that World Financial Group is hiring citizens from Colombia to work in Canada and will assist them in securing visas through the Canadian Embassy once personal documentation is produced and mailed. Read Article
Latin American drug barons have been exposed as a crucial source of funds for al-Qaida by paying them to ensure the safe passage of cocaine across North Africa and towards Europe. Islamist rebels familiar with the terrain of the Sahara have struck deals under which they provide armed security escorts for drug traffickers in return […]
Colombia’s president hailed Wednesday the killing by police of Pedro Guerrero, a notorious drug lord known as “The Knife” who had a 2.5-million-dollar US bounty on his head. Skip related content Related photos / videos National Police Chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo, holds a handgun seized from Colombian drug lord …More Enlarge photo .Authorities say the […]
Heavy fog is causing chaos at Colombia’s international El Dorado airport in Bogota Wednesday. According to the Colombia’s aerial authority Aerocivil, the fog caused the delay of 351 flights which is expected to cause chaos throughout the day. Read Article
The weather phenomenon has cuased dramatic rains in Colombia and has caused fifteen villages to be abandoned. Read Story
The governments of Colombia and Venezuela each declared states of emergency this month in vast areas of their countries where record flooding and landslides have killed more than 250 people and left more than 1 million homeless. Recent Gallup surveys in the two nations find that fewer than one in three believe they personally are […]
Severe weather and high waves caused a 70 tonne coal barge to sink off the Colombia coast this week, and more significant disruptions to shipments from the country, one of the world’s top five coal exporters are likely, Colombian miners and European buyers said on Friday. The Vale (VALE.N) barge sank near Rio Cordoba port, […]