The Latest Breaking News from Colombia

Anti-Mafia prosecutor shot dead on honeymoon the same day couple revealed pregnancy

Paraguayan Marcelo Pecci prosecutor who had worked on high profile mafia cases was shot dead on a Colombian tourism island where he was staying with his wife on their honeymoon

Daily Mirror · May 11, 2022

Paraguay organized crime prosecutor slain on Colombian beach

Paraguay’s prosecutor of organized crime and drug trafficking cases has been slain in Colombia apparently by gunmen on a jet ski as he honeymooned with his new wife

The Independent UK · May 10, 2022

Colombia legalized abortions for the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. A backlash ensued

The Constitutional Court issued the ruling in February of this year. It's part of a so-called "green wave" of liberalizing abortion rights in some Latin America countries. And it's led to protests.

WEKU · May 10, 2022

Pushing productive coca seeds, Mexican cartels reshape Colombia's drug industry

Emissaries of Mexican drug cartels are involving themselves more closely in cocaine production in Colombia, paying farmers in advance and pushing cultivation of highly-productive strains, coca growers, security officials and rights activists say.

Reuters · May 9, 2022

Liverpool star Luis Diaz at heart of filed FIFA complaint amid £7.7million transfer dispute

Porto sold Luis Diaz to Liverpool in January but the Portuguese club were due to a pay an instalment to the Colombian's former club and failure to do so has seen FIFA made aware

Daily Mirror · May 8, 2022

'I know a lot of people who have died prematurely' - the Greater Manchester streets where women's life expectancy is lower than in Colombia

"I don't know a woman around here who hasn't skipped a meal to make sure their children get fed"

Manchester Evening News · May 8, 2022

‘It’s total terror’: Colombian cartel retaliates over kingpin’s arrest

Otoniel’s Gulf Clan militiamen shut down northern regions, blocking roads and holding residents hostage in their houses

The Guardian - US · May 8, 2022

‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories

A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not

The Guardian - US · May 8, 2022

Colombia's Clan del Golfo attacks vehicles to protest Otoniel extradition -government

At least 100 vehicles were destroyed on highways across northern Colombia in isolated attacks by the Clan del Golfo criminal gang, which announced an "armed strike" to protest the extradition of former leader Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, to the United States, the government said on Friday.

Reuters · May 7, 2022

Colombian drug lord arrested for shipping ‘outrageous’ amounts of cocaine to US over 20 years

Leader of notorious ‘Clan del Golfo’ was captured in October

The Independent UK · May 6, 2022