Colombia News

The family of a Dublin man who died while having liposuction in Colombia has questioned the validity of his marriage to his South American wife.

In late April, some 200,000 people on foot and on cycles - most with two wheels, some with three or four and even one jerry-rigged to be two stories high - swarmed Venice Boulevard, clogging the roadway from downtown Los Angeles to the beach.

The cultural ambassador trip, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy's Cultural Affairs Office, is part of an initiative to promote Colombian and U.S. relations through music education.

It's always good to celebrate a little bit of the international when it comes to Spokane.

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Juan Carlos Echeverry, former finance minister in Colombia, speaks with The Gleaner at the World Bank's offices in New Kingston yesterday.

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Colombian researchers have questioned the clinical benefits of sugar free chewing gum to prevent dental carries and gingivitis after a double-blind, randomized controlled trial.

Editor's note: This story was written by Col. Maria Cecilia Silva Velasquez of the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana and provides a fascinating look at how one South American county participated in a military training exercise thousands of miles away.

Even though same-sex couples in Colombia will be able to legally register their relationships on Friday, it remains unclear whether some notaries and even judges will allow them to do so.

Rafael Medina Brochero, 52, wants 20,000 dollars for his private parts - so he can travel the continent with his "Poetry for Peace in Colombia" show.

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Former professional dancer Eva Guidi Ewins brings Zumba classes to Hong Kong's South Lantau.

The following is entirely typical of the freewheeling 11-day international festival returning June 19 to its appointed task of cracking you up: One of the mainstage acts at Rapid Fire Theatre's Improvaganza is an innovative improv duo called Picnic from Bogota, Colombia.

Scopolamine is a medicine for motion sickness or tremors. In Colombia, it's a scary drug called 'devil's breath.'

Website: http://www.berklee.edu/news/student-esther-rojas-leads-berklee-rh [...] Berklee College of Music student bassist Esther Rojas, a native of Barranquilla, Colombia, leads the Berklee Rhythm Collective on a two-week trip to her home country to teach and perform.

Drugs and arms traffickers are muscling in on Colombia's Pacific coastal region, forcibly displacing local people, according to a new report by the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement .

BOGOTA Seventeen years ago, Andrés Angulo, a recently graduated doctor, rented an apartment, bought a whiteboard, and began training nurses and medical technicians.

The two Spanish citizens who spent 29 days in captivity in Colombia said Sunday they were doing "very well" and had decided to get married.

Colombia's state-run oil company Ecopetrol Sunday suspended crude production in oil-rich southwest Catatumbo, a region of Norte de Santander state, following violent clashes between farmers and security forces in the town of Tibu, a company source said.