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The heads of government of the Amazon basin countries convene in Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia, to strategize conserving the Amazon rainforest.
2023-07-8

Colombian and Venezuelan intelligence officials confirm the death of Miguel Botache Santillana, alias Gentil Duarte, the top leader of the FARC dissidents.
2022-05-25

Colombian Justice Minister Margarita Cabello Blanco says 23 prisoners are dead and 83 others are injured following an attempted "mass criminal escape" at La Modelo prison and other detention centers. Two guards are also in critical condition.
2020-03-22

A suicide car-bomb attack at the General Santander National Police Academy in Bogotá, Colombia, kills at least 20 people and injures more than 50 others.
2019-01-17

The death toll from Monday's landslide in the town of Salgar rises to 80.
2015-05-20

At least 52 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar, Antioquia.
2015-05-18

200,000 people protest in Bogotá, Colombia, against government cuts in public education.
2011-11-14

Accused drug lord Walid Makled Garcia is extradited from Colombia to Venezuela.
2011-05-9

Colombia asks Israel to extradite former Israeli army Lt. Col. Yair Klein, who was convicted by a Colombian court "in absentia" for training drug lords' assassins in the 1980s.
2011-01-28

A car bomb explodes in the Colombian capital Bogotá outside Caracol Radio, one of the main radio networks in the country, injuring several people.
2010-08-12