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The U.S. 2020 general elections have passed, but election season is not over! If you vote in a state or jurisdiction with runoff elections for federal and local offices, the U.S. Embassy can assist with the return of your voting materials.

US Department of State: Reconsider travel to Colombia due to COVID-19. Exercise increased caution in Colombia due to crime, terrorism and kidnapping. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. 

“A high energy blunt abdominal trauma caused the right kidney to burst, causing severe bleeding in the abdominal cavity, leading to death,” in addition to a ruptured liver says the coroner’s report on the death of Javier Ordoñez, a Colombian law student who died at the hands of...

Colombian Prosecutors took down a macabre conspiracy that sold meat from sick and dead donkeys and horses to local school systems, after first chemically treating the meat to appear more like beef, and give it a palatable texture. Between 2018 & 2019 the culprits moved over 5,500...

US DEA Special Agent José Ismael Irizarry and his wife Nathalia Gomez Irizarry pled guilty to all charges in a mammoth scheme to steal government funds, drug proceeds and launder money. The Irizarrys apparently are related to the notorious Ambuila crime family of Cali, Colombia.

Colombia suffered deadly riots as citizens took to the street to protest police brutality. In the latest incident, a law student was beaten & tasered to death in front of his apartment as friends and family looked on in horror. The attack was apparently unprovoked. Artwork...

Joseph Grenon and one of his three sons, Mark Grenon were arrested in Santa Marta, Colombia in a joint operation between Colombia’s attorney general and the US Department of Justice, after being charged with peddling a lethal industrial bleach solution in both the US and Colombia.

"The secret US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) list said Alvaro Uribe was 'dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin Cartel at high government levels' & was 'a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar' who had “worked for the Medellin Cartel." Declassified US Government...

EPM's General Manager Alvaro Guillermo Rendón has been given 5 days to respond to a subpoena from Colombia's human rights tribunal, which has been seeking information regarding EPM's handling of the remains of conflict victims at its troubled Hidroituango dam.

Former Avianca chairman Germán Efromovich along with his brother José have been arrested in Brazil on charges of bribery and corruption as part of the Lava Jato investigation.