Model and television personality Ivone Gomez was fatally shot just 2½ months after her husband was slain, the Colombian press said Wednesday. Gomez, 28, was killed Monday as she left a gym in an exclusive neighborhood of the southwestern city of Cali,...

Colombian police have arrested one of the country’s first paramilitary leaders who spent years in hiding. Police said Hector Jose Buitrago, 71, was detained in a rural area north of Bogota, where he had grown a beard and passed himself off as a...

A Colombian woman declared dead of a heart attack moved one of her arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her, doctors said Wednesday. Noelia Serna, 45, was rushed to a hospital in the city of Cali, where she was in critical condition in an...

Colombia has been attracting worldwide foreign direct investment (FDI) and has understandably been looking towards China as a model, as well as Asia in general, as the recent Sino-Latin American economic forum demonstrated. But Colombians must learn...

The Colombian government Thursday authorized the Catholic Church to begin direct negotiations with the FARC over the liberation of hostages. Monsignor Dario Castrillon Hoyos announced that he had received authorization from Colombian President Alvaro...

Relatives of 185 people killed by paramilitaries in Puerto Nare, Antioquia, are facing the possibility that there is no one to be sentenced for the murders. Ramón Isaza During a hearing conducted by the Justice and Peace Office against former...

Even in Colombia, a country known for its paramilitary death squads, this hunting party stood out: more than a dozen soldiers from a Colombian Army battalion, two Porsche salesmen armed with long-range rifles, their assistant, and a taxidermist.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s security policy has failed to attack the roots of violence and is beginning to show clear signs of weakness as violence in the big cities and rural areas, crucial to drug trafficking, soars. At best, Democratic...