Colombia Reports

Gay rights groups from five premier Bogotá universities formally united Wednesday with the aim of fostering discussion and cultural transformation regarding homosexuality in academic circles [Read more →]

Colombia just got richer by 81 million U.S. dollars, 2 million euros, 25 million pesos, 307 bars of gold and 8 houses. [Read more →]

Continental Airlines will soon offer an overnight flight from Bogotá to Houston, the second new air connection between Colombia and North America announced this week.  [Read more →]

Ecuador will extend refugee status to 50,000 Colombians until the middle of next year, relieving some of the pressure on the estimated 4 million persons displaced by the country’s 40-year internal war. [Read more →]

The International Criminal Court will keep a close eye on judicial proceedings in Colombia’s ‘parapolitics’ scandal, said Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo at the end of his three-day official visit. [Read more →]

Ecuador has barred the entry of Colombian fruits and vegetables, saying previous shipments were infected with pests. [Read more →]

More than ten years after journalist Nelson Carvajal Carvajal was gunned down by a motorcyclist in Huila, the president of the department’s assembly was charged with the crime. [Read more →]

A U.S. Navel vessel will spend the next 12 days in Santa Marta, providing free surgeries for children with facial deformities and other services. [Read more →]

Colombian Interior and Justice Minister named the witnesses that were allegedly manipulated by opposition senators Piedad Córdoba and Gustavo Petro to incriminate President Álvaro Uribe. [Read more →]

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe lied about former U.S. President carter’s support for the free trade pact between Colombia and the U.S., says U.S. blogger Dan Kovalik after consulting the Carter Center. [Read more →]