Scientists in America discover a new animal living in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador – the first new species of carnivore mammal to be identified for 35 years.
An Italian mafia boss alleged to be the biggest cocaine trafficker in the world is to be deported to Italy after being arrested in a Colombian shopping centre.
Residents of a remote Colombian village who have a 50 per cent risk of Alzheimer’s have taken part in key research into the disease. The results have now been published in the Lancet.
Alzheimer’s may start developing at least 20 years before symptoms first occur, writes Channel 4 News’s Science Editor Tom Clarke.
Police in Venezuela arrest Daniel Barrera, one of Colombia’s most wanted men, who is believed to be part of a gang responsible for smuggling 10 tonnes of cocaine each month to a Mexican drugs cartel.
Investigators are questioning 11 secret service agents accused of cavorting with prostitutes ahead of President Obama’s visit to Columbia. Could their behaviour have put US security at risk?
Channel 4 News Science Editor Tom Clarke follows a group of Colombian families blighted by Alzheimer’s to the US, where the hope is that a new study could help those suffering from the condition.
Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.
Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke meets the world’s largest community with inherited Alzheimer’s. The group, in a remote Colombian village, is at the centre of groundbreaking research.
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is responsible for the deaths of six Colombian informants, claims a customs officer who previously worked in Bogota. Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies reports.
Jon Snow
Curiously, my brief sojourn in Colombia has fuelled me up, for Cartagena is straight out of Greene. Black-hatted priests bent against the wind, striding two abreast beneath the sharp shadows of the un-sunny side of the street. Large tolling bells. A white stucco church, pantiled houses beyond with assorted ochres, yellows, and reds. Somewhere beneath…
Jon Snow
I am looking down on the Pacific waters at the mouth of the Panama canal. Below, evening sun splashes silver across the sea, silhouetting the shipping waiting to enter. I count 50 vessels: container ships, bulk carriers, cruise liners, each momentarily detailed as our plane descends to land at the airfield nearby. I haven’t been…
Jon Snow
Once in a while the gods deal you an unexpected hand. I am attempting the apparently Latin-American impossible: Colombia to London inside 24 hrs. The signs are not good. An hour and a half to go to take-off, and no-one is at check-in either side of the desk. Then I see why. The previous flight…
Jon Snow
A great cloud of dust, a whoosh of excitable policemen, and a motorcade comes to a gravel-scattering halt outside my hotel here in Cartagena, in Colombia. The most awaited guest is arrived. Salman Rushdie ain’t pleased. The one condition on which he had come here was: no security, no motorcades. He was fuming as he…
Jon Snow
I am in the south looking north, in Latin America, in Colombia. The disconnect is acute. The biggest event of the day? The appearance of the Mexican and Colombian presidents at Davos. No, don’t think Davos rocks here in the Andean foothills, on the rolling desert along the coast. But Latino presidents on the world…