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As if the moral implications and the threat of jail weren't enough, here is another reason not to rob people. This would-be bag grabber in Colombia...
Colombia's ambassador to the United Kingdom has paid tribute to Margaret Thatcher and thanked her for support during the notorious fight against drug ...
It's a nightmare to get to, but Cartagena, Colombia's walled city is a must visit destination if you are in the country.
A team of astronomers have tracked down the origin of a meteorite which injured more than 1,000 people in Russia. The rock smashed into Lake Chebar...
The Honduran ambassador to Colombia has been fired after a "wild" Christmas party involving alleged prostitutes and the theft of a number of computers...
You've heard of a Phoenix from the flames - well here's something far more spectacular. A new picture appears to show the moment a fiery giraffe bu...
To the west of the country, the Sierra de Perijá, a stretch of both mountains and plains, traces the conflictive border zone between Colombia and Venezuela. The region's inhabitants are, today, a mixture of indigenous groups, cattle farmers, both rich and humble, and the inevitable generational pool of all three.
Hooks, horns and hair-raising body art - it's all in a day's work for the participants at the third international tattoo convention in Medellin, Colom...
Meeting Mariana, who told me with great self-confidence that she wanted to be a doctor, I realised her care has to be continuous. I have to be there for her for the long haul, even after I'm gone.
This was a group of people in anticipation of a new era for their country. I felt simultaneously honoured to bear witness but also a little like a gatecrasher at an intimate family celebration. I wish this family well because peace is an inalienable right too.
Meet the real-life exorcist who claims to perform ten services a week. Brother Hermes, from Colombia, has been coming to the aid of those who belie...
First they killed Omairi's daughter. The paramilitaries meant to kill her husband, a journalist who was exposing corruption in Colombia, South America. They bungled the assassination and he survived, but their daughter died.
It was a death threat, sent by text to the mobile telephone of a lawyer in Colombia, South America. The message, translated from the Spanish and sanitised for the firewalls, said: "Hi, b*stard dogs. You have already done your bit, now it's our turn. Get all those b*stards together for your and your buddies' funerals. But calm down - we will send you a nice bunch of flowers."
Governments around the world have failed in their war on drugs and fuelled a pandemic in HIV, a leading think tank has said. The Global Commission ...
Yenly Méndez believes the PEZ model offers a viable alternative to the current development model in Colombia and is capable of drastically improving life for the country's rural poor.
The first ever satellite system to monitor deforestation across Latin America in near-real time has revealed that in parts of Colombia, tree-felling h...
I've been here in Colombia almost a year now and I don't regret the move for a second. There are so many reasons why I love it so but I think foremost among them is that I feel at home for what seems like the first time in years.
As citizens of the UK, we are regularly reminded of how fortunate we are to be afforded the freedoms and protections granted by the rule of law.
The Argentine people should have the intelligence and dignity to drop all claims to the Falklands and so to benefit from improved relations and trade, or for ever be complaining about the state of their own country and what might have been.
A few days ago I wrote about the killing of Luis Carlos Galan, the 1980s Colombian presidential candidate. One character, Jorge Salcedo, emerged as being key to discovering the truth about Galan's killing. Remarkably, he has now written a piece for for CNN.com
In life, Colombia's 1989 presidential candidate, Luis Carlos Galan, was South America's version of JFK; charismatic, visionary, admired and fearless. More than 20 years after his murder the comparisons to JFK continue.
Until recently, the "Comuna 13" slum in Medellin, Colombia, was best known for gang violence and the 35-minute trek up a hillside to get home. Now...
Is demand for cocaine here in the UK and elsewhere contributing to violence and environmental damage in Colombia? Yes. It is nonsensical to deny this. We are all responsible for our own actions. That prohibition makes things vastly worse says nothing about a personal choice made in the knowledge of the damage the drug trade inflicts today.
Our days are getting shorter and the sun seems to slip down in the sky faster each night with darkness cloaking our little piece of earth before we ev...
Women in the Colombian town of Barbacoas have ended a near-four month “crossed legs” strike. The women decided on the period of abstinence in ...
