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The massacres in Southeast Antioquia appear related to a confrontation between gangs associated with the Urabeños, which is also known as the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), and the Medellin-based Oficina de Envigado. Both are looking to control local drug markets.

Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, set up to prosecute crimes committed during the armed conflict, announced that it was investigating the killing of 6,402 “disappeared” people, far higher than the initial figure of some 2,000 that they had originally received to...

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.

"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.

In a national embarrassment, the Colombian Navy lost control of 3 unattended, fully armed Boston Whaler gunboats that then drifted into possession of the Venezuelan Military

Colombian authorities dismantled a criminal organization in Arauca known as “Los Suizos” (translates to "The Swiss") that had smuggled about 100 tons of cheese across the border.

"Now its worse than before." Finance Colombia was able to communicate briefly with a career soldier on the front lines in the troubled region of Tumaco to understand the situation from the point of view of the soldier on the ground.

Colombia’s attorney general, Fabio Espitia Garzón, received a delegation of prosecutors from The United Sates led by Zachary Terwilliger, Prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen cooperation in the fight against organized...

In “Operation Poena,” conducted jointly between Colombia’s National Police, Argentina’s Federal Police and Interpol, 74 year old Argentine executive Roberto Jorge Rigoni was captured in Campana, Argentina, 90 kilometers outside of Buenos Aires. According...