The son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been arrested for money laundering and illicit enrichment by the country’s attorney general. Nicolas Petro, a politician in Atlantico province, was detained over allegations he was paid by drug traffickers to fund his father’s peace Continue Reading
The mother of four children rescued after 40 days in the Amazon jungle was alive for four days after their plane crashed. Magdalena Mucutuy told her children to leave and find help as she lay dying. Speaking to reporters, the children’s father, Manuel Ranoque, said his eldest daughter told him their mother urged them to […]Continue Reading
Four children have been found alive after surviving a plane crash and spending weeks fending for themselves in Colombia’s Amazon jungle. Colombia’s president said the rescue of the siblings, aged 13, nine, four and one, was “a joy for the whole country”. The children’s mother and two pilots were killed when their light aircraft crashed […]Continue Reading
Dozens of police officers and employees from an oilfield company were taken hostage after a violent protest in Colombia on Thursday. According to Police, violence erupted in a rural part of the San Vicente del Caguan municipality, where protesters from rural and indigenous communities, Colombia’s national, attacked an oil field belonging to the company Emerald […]Continue Reading
Four people were killed and about 70 injured in Colombia on Sunday after spectator stands at a bullfight collapsed, provincial officials said. The bull reportedly escaped from the plaza hosting the spectacle and was causing panic in the streets of Espinal, Tolima, a city of nearly 60,000 people about 145km (90 miles) south-west of Bogotá, the capital. […]Continue Reading
When you hear about big butts in Colombia, the first thing that comes to mind probably aren’t ants. Big butt ants are a regional delicacy in the Santander region of Colombia. The hormigas culonas, a.k.a hormigas santandereanas are pregnant leaf cutter ants that are collected by hand during the Spring mating season. They are then […]Continue Reading