A pyramid scheme that cost investors millions of dollars and sent swindled people rioting in the streets continued to plague southwestern Colombia.

The nearly $5 billion American aid package known as Plan Colombia failed to meet its goal of halving illegal narcotics production, says an American report.

An investigation tied military personnel under Gen. Mario Montoya’s command to the killing of civilians in attempts to inflate the number of insurgents.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has paid more than $3.3 million to informants in an investigation that led to the arrest of a man prosecutors called an international arms dealer.

Civilians are increasingly becoming victims of Colombia’s long internal war against leftist insurgencies.

Civilians are increasingly becoming victims of Colombia’s long internal war against leftist insurgencies, according to human rights researchers.

Leftist guerrillas agreed to meet with 150 prominent Colombians to discuss a possible release of hostages in their custody.

More than 100 suspects were arrested in Colombia and overseas on charges that they trafficked drugs and laundered cash for Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel and outlawed paramilitaries.

A whimsical riff on the bookmobile, Luis Soriano’s “Biblioburro” is a small institution: one man and two donkeys.

The government of President Álvaro Uribe has tried to undermine investigations of paramilitary gangs by a group of Supreme Court justices and prosecutors, Human Rights Watch said.