After one month in which an additional 1,500 police are patrolling Bogotá streets, violent assaults and other crimes are slowing the city’s economic reactivation.
As coronavirus cases decelerate across Colombia, the departmental capital of Amazonas, Leticia, reported on Thursday zero fatalities from the virus.
Bogotá is in the grip of a crime wave that has required additional police on city streets. Defense Minister Molano blames anti-government protests for surge in homicides.
As nations grapple with anti-vaxxers, Colombia’s indigenous peoples are rallying communities to get inoculated given experience with tropical viruses.
Colombia’s COVID-19 vaccination plan now includes all adults age 20 or over as per day infections and deaths continue to decelerate.
The parallel justice system established with the 2016 Havana peace accords claims FARC recruited more than 18,600 minors into their rank and file during two decades of conflict.
Coronavirus cases and single day mortality rates have reached five months lows in Colombia. China’s Sinovac studying vaccine production plant near Colombian capital.
Colombia marked 202 years of the Batalla de Boyacá on Saturday and stunning visual display of the country’s military transformation since the last independence battle.
FARC’s Rodrigo Londoño and AUC’s Salvatore Mancuso met virtually on Wednesday to discuss their roles and responsibilities to the victims of Colombia’s internal conflict.
A Colombian variant is behind an increase in new Florida cases given the state’s close connectivity with South America. WHO claims B.1.621 requires “further monitoring.”
Many foreigners in Colombia think they are above the law given the country’s reputation of lawlessness. Want to bring down a government? Do it at home.
The Clever Leaves plantation was the venue for a government decree that authorizes exports and sales of dry medicinal cannabis to global health entities.
Colombia has reached 100,000 coronavirus deaths after sixteen months of pandemic, and country with the third-highest mortality in South America, surpassed by Brazil and Peru.
As part of the War Crimes charges by the transitional court JEP, ex-FARC have handed-over information regarding the remains of at least 55 persons listed as missing.
The 19th century statue of Liberator Simón Bolívar has been moved to a safe location after protests weakened the pedestal and vandals burned the sides and belly of the horse.
A disinformation campaign targeting Colombia’s pro-democracy supporters is being fueled by trolls and foreign click farms, claims recent study by Washington’s SFS.