Colombia News

A Puerto Rican fisherman spent nearly three weeks adrift in the Caribbean, surviving on raw fish and trapped rainwater, before reaching the Colombian island of San Andres.

Engineer Fernando Mauricio Castro illustrates the regional impact of mining using a map of Tolima.

Chef Rafael Palomino has been on a roll, expanding a restaurant empire that now includes Fairfield's MESA, labeled a "Modern Mexican and Urban Taqueria." The eatery, which opened in October at 2320 Black Rock Turnpike, has been growing in popularity with a local crowd that enjoys tasty Mexican cuisine in a relaxed vibrant atmosphere.

Bogota, Feb 6 : Some 180 half-naked people in the northwestern city of Medellin positioned themselves to form the word "stop" to demand an end to bullfighting in Colombia.

For many of us Expats, living in developing countries that once seemed so nice, cute even, with governments that seemed benign, relaxed banking rules, acceptable affordable health care, oppressive bureaucracy that we could usually buy our way around, but most of all, peace and economic security, times may be changing sooner rather than later.

Colombian authorities are investigating Victor Carranza, a prominent businessman who dominates the nation's emerald industry, to determine if he had links to anti-government paramilitary groups.

The old city of Cartagena is surrounded by an ancient wall that guards exquisite colonial buildings, romantic nooks and amazing food.

Karen, an unfulfilled housewife in Bogota, Colombia, loves to read novels. Her clueless husband of 10 years does not and only talks about his boring job.

Red tipped yellow roses are packaged for shipment to the U.S. for Valentine's Day at the Sagaro Flowers SA facility in Bogota, Colombia, on Wednesday, Feb.

When discussing cinema in the context of "best crime films," The Godfather is bound to come up.

Panama denies request to extradite Colombia's former spy chief Friday, 03 February 2012 15:42 Mary Cecelia Bittner Panama denied Friday Colombia's request for the extradition of the former head of Colombia's intelligence agency DAS who is charged with wiretapping political opponents of the government of former President Alvaro Uribe and the Supreme ... (more)

The Lincoln County Groundhogs Association made their annual visits to local school, nursing homes and dentist offices as part of their Groundhogs Day Celebrations on Thursday.

A Colombian rebel commander who has been detained in Venezuela since May was taken to a military hospital because of health problems, Venezuelan authorities said Friday.

Acclaimed Seattle-based adventure travel company and guide service Mountain Madness debuts its newest trip on February 4th: an excursion to Colombia's El Cocuy National Park .

A woman waits for transport in Bogota, Colombia, on Thursday. Many residents of Colombia's capital walked, biked or took buses and taxis to their destinations honoring the car-free day.

Cruising the eastern Pacific is everyone's dream, but the green turtle, the only herbivore among the sea turtles, seems to have it made in one sense.

BMI View: On October 12 2011, the long-stalled free trade agreement between Colombia and the US was finally approved by the US Congress.

Popular Colombian tourist spot becoming neo-paramilitary base: Report Thursday, 02 February 2012 12:13 Charles Parkinson Caribbean coastal city Santa Marta is beset by neo-paramilitaries who want to turn it in to a "second center of operations," reported Colombian daily El Tiempo Thursday.

In Calgary, maybe it's because one may find it hard to believe the terrible bicycle infrastructure and plague-like urban sprawl were planned by rational human beings.

But President Juan Manuel Santos and his defense minister both said they had no doubt the authors were the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the country's main insurgency.