Tag: Colombia

Death toll climbs to 12 in Colombia mine accident

Washington Examiner · May 4, 2014 10:57 pm

People watch as machinery is used to search for survivors of a collapsed illegal gold mine in Santander de Quilichao, southern Colombia, Thursday, May 1, 2014. The bodies of three miners have been recovered and an unknown number remain missing, said Temistocles Ortega, governor of the Cauca state. (AP Photo/Oswaldo Paez, El Pais)

Energy and Environment

Illegal Colombia mine collapse: 3 dead, 15 missing

Libardo Cardona · May 2, 2014 4:08 am

People watch machinery used to dig in search or survivors at a collapsed illegal gold mine in Santander de Quilichao, southern Colombia, Thursday, May 1, 2014. The bodies of three miners have been recovered and an unknown number remain missing, said Temistocles Ortega, governor of the Cauca state. (AP Photo/Oswaldo Paez, El Pais)

Illegal Colombia mine collapse: 3 dead

Libardo Cardona · May 2, 2014 2:21 am

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 23, 2014, police officers and forensics look at the body of British citizen Henry Miller, 19, on a road outside Mocoa, in Colombia's southwestern state of Putumayo. Miller died after he drank a hallucinogen during a tribal ritual, his body left by the side of the road by two frightened young local men, said Saturday local police commander Ricardo Suarez. (AP Photo/Jose Horacio Villarreal)

Colombian shaman has no remorse in UK teen’s death

JOSHUA GOODMANMARKO ALVAREZ · May 1, 2014 10:13 pm

Bogota's mayor Gustavo Petro greets his dog Bacata, as he walks to city hall in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos reinstated Petro following a court order. Petro was removed from office in March after President Juan Manuel Santos refused to heed the Inter-American Human Rights Commission's call for a stay on the Inspector General's ouster of the mayor months earlier for alleged administrative missteps. (AP Photo/Nestor Silva)

Colombia president reinstates ousted Bogota mayor

JOSHUA GOODMANLIBARDO CARDONA · April 24, 2014 12:41 am

USAF: Colombia crash caused by plane hitting hill

Brock Vergakis · April 23, 2014 12:58 pm

Colombia arrests 10 cocaine smugglers at airport

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2014 4:24 pm

Rights group alarmed by Colombian port killings

Washington Examiner · March 20, 2014 9:42 pm

Bogota mayor loses fight to stay in office

Vivian Sequera · March 19, 2014 9:20 pm

Ex-Colombian rebel pleads guilty to hostage taking

Pete Yost · March 18, 2014 7:52 pm

Military: 80 percent of Colombian drugs gets to US

Lolita Baldor · March 13, 2014 5:18 pm

Voters check a list to confirm where they should cast their ballots during legislative elections in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Uribe wins Senate seat in Colombia

Vivian Sequera · March 10, 2014 7:30 am