A landslide that killed as many as 30 people or more was caught on film by an engineer on Monday, September 27th in the department of Antioquia. The hope for survivors is dismall as rain soaked mountains are a constant threat every year during the rainy season. President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos will visit visit the [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 25, 2010 on the BBC News website. Experts in Colombia are trying to crack the codes to 15 computers and almost 100 memory sticks belonging to Colombia’s largest rebel group. They were seized on Thursday after a massive raid on a Farc jungle [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 26, 2010 in the Los Angeles Times. Billions of U.S. dollars later, Colombia gets the upper hand in battle on rebels, drugs By CHRIS KRAUL Reporting from Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia– Ten years after the U.S. began pouring billons of dollars into a largely [...]
Obama met Santos, who took office in August, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, a day after the Colombian army announced it had killed rebel leader Mono Jojoy in a bombing raid on his guerrilla camp. “Yesterday was a big day for the people of Colombia and those who [...]
Earlier today, President Obama met with President Santos of Colombia on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Building upon the strong, historic partnership between the United States and Colombia, the Presidents engaged in a wide-ranging discussion regarding bilateral, regional, and global issues. President Obama congratulated President Santos on his recent [...]
BOGOTA — The 57 year old military chief of Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels was killed early Thursday in a joint army, air force and police operation in the south-central province of Meta, officials confirmed. Intelligence officials and police and Defense Ministry sources cited by the local media said Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, better known as [...]
Colombian authorities announced that police have shut down 40 illegal gold mines, confiscated heavy machinery and made 16 arrests for illegal mining linked to armed groups in targeted operations which began on September 11. Under orders from President Juan Manuel Santos, the crackdown took place across a wide area of the northwestern province of Cordoba [...]
