QUITO (Reuters) – One of Ecuador’s most wanted drug traffickers, accused of having close ties with Mexican drug cartels, was captured in a Colombian city close to the border between…
(Reuters) – A day before a U.S. military jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, Colombia’s military confirmed a sighting over its territory of an airborne object similar to…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The leader of a prominent Colombian criminal group pleaded guilty on Wednesday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, court records showed. Dairo Antonio Usuga David, better known…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused leader of a prominent Colombian criminal group plans to change his plea in a U.S. drug trafficking case after pleading not guilty last May,…
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A Colombian suspect in the murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor last year was arrested in El Salvador and will be handed over to Colombian authorities, El…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian retailer GPA said on Friday it had taken the first steps towards spinning off its Colombian subsidiary Almacenes Exito SA and plans to distribute its…
Defendants Had Ties to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) WASHINGTON – Mauricio Mazabel-Soto, 45, and Alfredo Molina-Cutiva, 53, both citizens of Colombia, pleaded…
(Corrects spelling of company in 8th paragraph and last name in 9th paragraph) By Valentine Hilaire MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican private equity manager AINDA expects to raise $600 million for…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian airlines Avianca and Viva have appealed to the aviation regulator after it denied their plan to merge, proposing steps to allay its concerns, such as yielding…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday approved a budget for investing billions of dollars in royalties from hydrocarbons and mineral exploitation. The 31.3 trillion peso ($6.369 billion) budget for…
By Deisy Buitrago and Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela held their first bilateral meeting in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on Tuesday, where they discussed…
Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Billy Rengifo Saaverda (44, Medellin, Colombia) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – A string of former Colombian finance ministers criticized the Andean country’s President Gustavo Petro on Thursday after he took to Twitter to question…
BOSTON – A Colombian man, who was extradited from Colombia after indictment, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in an international drug trafficking organization. Henry…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Shares in companies that are part of Colombia’s largest conglomerate GEA rose on Wednesday after Abu Dhabi-based investor International Holding Company (IHC) launched a bid to buy…
BOSTON – A Colombian man, who was extradited from Colombia after indictment, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in three charges related to obstructing justice.…
Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Hector Fabio Garcia Vengohechea (59, Cartagena, Colombia) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and possess…
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Omar Olmedo Paredes (55, Cocal Payan, Colombia) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiracy to…
BOGOTA – Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro appointed two cabinet members on Saturday, a day before taking office in a bid to drive deep social and economic change. Petro appointed Irene…
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Hilda Maria Gonzalez Lopez, also known as “La Boyaca” and “Daniela,” who aligned herself with powerful members of Los Rastrojos, a breakoff group…
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge William Jung has sentenced Gerardo Gomez-Lubo, a/k/a Francisco Niño, (42, Colombia) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine knowing and…
PLANO, Texas – A Colombian lawyer has been convicted of federal obstruction violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Maritza Claudia Fernanda Lorza Ramirez,…
BOSTON – A Lowell man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy connected to a Colombian-based criminal enterprise. Juan Pablo Ariasgil,…
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Anne Milgram, the Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), announced today the extradition of…
COLOMBIAN AUTHOR ADRIANA ARISTIZÁBAL RELEASES THE SPANISH VERSION OF HER BOOK AT THE 34TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR Tweet this In her book, Caught in the Storm of War: Memoirs…