Cali, Colombia News

"On September 29, 1994, a former DEA agent named Joseph Toft, well known in Colombia for his starring role in Pablo Escobar's death the previous year, sat down with some TV reporters in Bogota.

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and 40-year prison sentence of a Colombian drug kingpin.

But enter the inaugural season of the Rochester Thunder, and players from Bosnia to Colombia to Brazil are now spending their summer living the Minnesotan life.

Cancer patient marries long-time love in a Cali hospital. 5 1 390 This text will be replaced COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: From Cali, we have the story of an elderly man dying of cancer who fullfilled his last wish in life... to marry the woman he's loved for 30 years.

COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: Poilce at Colombia's major International Airports are on the lookout for counterfeit U.S. currency.

A north-west London "delivery man" who helped the world's biggest cocaine supplier flood Britain with millions of pounds of the drug has been jailed for five and a half years.

Saturday, June 20, 2009 Toronto's Cliff Sifton, left, and Rogers' Scott Weir battle for the ball during their match in the PACE Polo For Heart Tournament in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Some Latin American countries on Friday reported 87 new cases of the influenza A/H1N1 in the region.

COLOMBIA'S ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Factor X, the American Idol of Colombia, just finished audutions in Cali.

Commercial director Vanessa Wilches holds a butterfly at Alas de Colombia, a company that legally breeds and exports butterflies, in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, on June 3, 2009.

Mayor Raul Salinas was among those in attendance. and while he was there, he met up with the president of Colombia: Alvaro Uribe Velez.

Stage 4: Circasia-Armenia - Cali 195.5 km Yeah right!!! a "transition" stage that gave everyone a surprising end.

COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: Fast moving floods nearly sweep away a taxi in Barranquilla; We've got the video tape.

Fabio Duarte still in the red jersey of race leader. The Green of Boyaca es para Vivirla gets it... Photo © 2009 Revista Mundo Ciclistico.com Wilson Cepeda bests his two breakmates at the finish.

CALI, VALLE DEL CAUCA: When you're done dancing Salsa on your next trip to Cali, make it a point to stop off and have a bowl of Manjar Blanco.

Small plane loaded with drugs crashes into mountain near Cali. 0 0 16 This text will be replaced SAN MARCOS, VALLE DEL CAUCA: kilos of cocaine were found in the wreckage of a small plane that hit a mountain near Yumbo, Valle early Thursday.

FOR more than 20 years Carmen Lasso has scrabbled a living of sorts for herself and her eight children by scavenging at a rubbish dump in Cali, Colombia's third-largest city.

Executive Director Jay Sieleman and his wife Priscilla Hernandez were recent guests of the Tercer Blues Festival International in Cali, Colombia.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Colombia is pumped up about Factor X. Hundreds are getting ready for auditions this weekend in Cali.

RCN's Gary Parkosewich reports from Cogua, Cundinamarca with new specials every morning this week in "Special Reports" In the headlines from Colombia, Cali police are investigating the death a child allegedly caused by an abusive mother and stepfather, whom severely beat the child with a belt.Colombian police are starting the "Unidos por la Vida" ...