After the euphoria, the euphemisms. Antanas Mockus’s campaign to become Colombian president won fervent crowds, favourable opinion polls and the blessing of world-renowned academics. But on Sunday evening, with the votes counted, the best news...

The Colombian Attorney General’s Office has assembled of list of 2,321 killings over the past 25 years in which members of the security forces are suspected of having played a role, according to an internal report seen by Efe. Among the victims were...

Assailants intercepted an ambulance in the southwestern province of Cauca, forced an injured man and his mother to get out and then killed them, Colombian police said Monday.

President Hugo Chavez said Monday that Venezuela has received thousands of Russian-made missiles and rocket launchers as part of his government’s military preparations for a possible armed conflict with neighboring Colombia. “They are...

Three more students in Colombia’s Caribbean department of Sucre have succumbed to fainting fits after playing with a Ouija board over the internet, El Tiempo reports. For the past two months in the village of Las Llanadas, in north-western...