Bogota, Colombia News

Bogota, Jul 9 The Colombian Prosecutors Office summoned 150 witnesses Thursday, to give testimony on the scandal on the illegal interceptions made by the Department of Security to magistrates, politicians and opposition leaders.

Vancouver actor Rob LaBelle says working as a producer helps to diversify his life.

A hippopotamus that escaped three years ago from a zoo built by the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been spotted living in the wild near the Magdalena river, according to a local magazine.

Colombia on Monday confirmed two more deaths of A/H1N1 flu, bringing the country's death toll to four.

Colombian bank, Banco Popular , is planning to sell $1.4 billion peso-denominated bonds, The Wall Street Journal reports.

BOGOTA, D.C.: Film makers are flocking to Colombia's scenic locations to make the world's next cinematic hits! Several major production companies, including Contento Films, have invested major money in films now shooting here.

COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: Interpol is deciding whether to honor a request by Ecuador to arrest former Colombia Defense MInister Juan Manuel Santos.

An Ecuadorean judge ordered theA arrest of a former Colombian official involved in a 2008A bombing raid carried out in Ecuador, but Bogota refused toA recognize his jurisdiction, intensifying cross-borderA diplomatic tensions.

Long-stalled efforts to consummate a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia may be gaining some momentum, despite persistent questions about Bogota's human rights record.

It's always the same: the TV audience is grief-stricken and indignant that he is no longer with us, but they continue to laugh along with him.

Professionally filmed video footage of MORBID ANGEL performing the song "Where The Slime Live" on June 27, 2009 at the Rock al Parque festival at Parque Simon Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia can be viewed below.

UNESCO has put two natural sites, a coral reef in Belize and a national park in Colombia, on its list of endangered world heritage, a statement issued Saturday said.

Fri, Jun 26, 2009 The news stunned nearly everyone, from the young man in Colombia who was named after the King of Pop, to Malaysians who named a soy drink for him, to a generation of people around the world who have tried to moonwalk.

COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: Business owners at a large market and warehouse complex near Cucuta are figuring out their next step after a huge fire destroyed the complex overnight.

COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: Bogota police are on an all-out search for Jose Nibardo Marin, who shot an 11-year-old boy.

Luis Alberto Prieto Vargas, a Colombian convert to Judaism, speaks to a conference in Colombia about his quest to be recognized as a Jew, May 2009.

Colombian health officials are reporting the country's second swine flu death, bringing the number of confirmed local cases of the virus to 68.

A solution to some of the anxiety that Deborah Kehoe Wade and other pet owners suffer when they have to put a furry family member on a plane may be around the corner.

Frank Bajak Bogota, Colombia - Friday, Jun. 19, 2009 12:55PM EDT C olombia's coca crop shrank by nearly a fifth last year while cultivation of the bush that is the basis of cocaine rose in Peru and Bolivia, the world's two other coca-producing nations, the United Nations said today.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: "Mr. America" now on display in Bogota. The exhibit featuring the work of Pop Art Icon Andy Warhol runs through next month.