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The modality of the crime points more towards a premeditated killing rather than simple theft.

US government personnel cannot travel freely throughout Colombia for security reasons.

While the homicide rate in Colombia fell again in 2020, the nation struggled to confront a number of other security threats. The 12,018 homicides recorded across the country last year marked a murder rate of 24.3 per 100,000 people, down just over six percent from the total...

Colombia is expected to register "a little more than 11,000 homicides" in 2017 — below the 11,532 homicides officially recorded in 2016.

From January through the end of April, 357 homicides occurred in the capital — 39 fewer than the 396 reported during the same period in 2016.

With 24.4 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2016, Colombia reached a level not seen in more than four decades.

Colombia’s homicide level of 12,800 nationally, is the lowest since 1984, according to reports, while the more meaningful rate of homicides per 100,000 residents dipped under 30 per 100,000; a rate not seen since the 1970s. According to El Tiempo, this rate is still higher...