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Landmark verdict against Chiquita marks first time major US company held liable for funding human rights abuses abroad

Leaked documents from the Prosecutor’s Office show that their vessels, the initials of their containers and the arrival docks of these companies in Europe are mentioned by criminals to speak in code about cocaine shipments and routes.

Official statistics on busts of drug shipments originating in Colombia — the world’s largest cocaine producer by far — are scattershot and hard to find. A leak of prosecutor’s office documents helped reporters fill in some gaps.

A British backpacker has been found dead at his holiday accommodation in Colombia.

The 25-year-old British student has been detained in Colombia and forced to pose in front an illegal haul after reportedly attempting to smuggle cocaine disguised as milk out of the country

Michel Villa Moya was driving on a motorway in Colombia when an angry swarm of bees got into the car, causing him to crash before he later died having reportedly suffered an allergic reaction to the venom

While filming on location in some of the dodgier neighbourhoods in Medellin, where drug lord Pablo Escobar built up his empire in the 80s and 90s, local thugs approached the director and offered their protection if he would cast local prostitutes in the movie

The workers had to flee the warehouse following the explosion in Cartagena, Colombia, as witnesses described seeing thick black smoke rising into the air for many miles around

Six-year-old Maximiliano Tabares was tortured and killed by his mother and stepfather in Colombia, after his mother thought the satanic sacrifice would lead her to finding a tomb of gold. She is now facing life in prison

A helicopter crashed into the side of a skyscraper in Medellin on Monday, with a new video released showing the passengers panicking and making their final phone calls - before miraculously surviving the accident

Yisela Torres Apresa was admitted to a clinic on January 13 after experiencing health problems and complications began after a filler was injected into her buttocks

Who was Griselda Blanco and what happened to her? Dubbed the 'cocaine godmother', the mother-of-four ruled Miami's drug empire for decades before she was assassinated in the street

An unnamed woman has been charged with wildlife trafficking after police discovered 130 poisonous frogs hidden inside film cannisters found in her bags at El Dorado Airport

In the clip, a vehicle is seen approaching a T-junction in broad daylight, but as it slows down two men on a motorbike block the path, yelling at the occupants to "get out" in Cali, Colombia

A mudslide covered a highway on a busy road in a mountainous area connecting the cities of Quibo and Medellin in western Colombia. Officials said at least 33 people were killed

A group of seven thrill-seekers, six adults and a child, were left hanging for around half-an-hour after the ride stopped while going up a steep incline at the Parque del Café, in Montenegro, west of Bogota, Colombia, on January 3

Vanessa Forero had a unique upbringing thanks to her mum Marina Chapman's harrowing childhood - where she claims she was abducted and left to live in the jungle with monkeys

Marina Chapman grew up with only monkeys as companions and learnt to fend for herself by copying their survival skills, from nabbing bananas to sleeping in holes in trees

Vanessa Forero's mum Marina Chapman had a bizarre and harrowing upbringing after being kidnapped, sold to trafficking gangs and abandoned in a Colombian rainforest where she claims to have been raised by monkeys

The man behind the punch-up has been widely reported as a US-based Polish national on the Spirit Airlines flight from the Colombian city of Barranquilla to Miami, Florida yesterday afternoon

The death of activist and comedian Tou Ger Xiong has left his community in Minnesota reeling. He was warned about the rise of kidnappings in Colombia but didn't think it would happen to him

Yeferson Cossio was for a long time insecure about his 5 foot 8 height - despite it being one inch above the average in his home of Colombia. The 29-year-old splashed nearly £150,000 to address it…

The death of a young girl who contracted a rare disease after becoming infected with a bug that eats brain tissue while on holiday has left her family devastated

The body of Luis Alfredo Garavito, a twisted Colombian paedophile known as "The Beast", was left languishing on a mortician's slab for almost 40 days after his death on October 12

Orion's owner was murdered after being shot in the head by thieves - and in a heartbreaking moment after the funeral, the bulldog began jumping up at the coffin, leaving family members stunned