MERIDA, Venezuela, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Wilber "Soap" Varela, reputedly one of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, has been found dead in Venezuela, it was reported Saturday.
BOGOTA, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A former Colombian Justice Minister was convicted Thursday of playing a role in the 1989 assassination of a presidential candidate.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- "Shooter" director Antoine Fuqua is set to helm "Escobar," one of two upcoming U.S. bio-pictures about notorious Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Production on the long-gestating Hollywood film, "Killing Pablo," could begin by next June, Zap2it.com reported.
BOGOTA, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A leading Colombian drug lord was captured during a raid aimed at members of a the Norte del Valle cocaine cartel, considered the largest in Colombia.
BOGOTA, June 28 (UPI) -- A trial in Colombia has begun for a former justice minister accused of orchestrating the death of a presidential candidate in 1989, El Tiempo said Wednesday.
BOGOTA, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A former Colombian minister was charged with plotting the assassination of a former presidential candidate 16 years ago, El Tiempo reported Thursday online.
BOGOTA, May 12 (UPI) -- A former Colombian minister of justice was arrested Thursday in connection with the assassination of former presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan.
BOGOTA, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. officials are requesting the extradition from Colombia of reputed Cali cartel drug kingpins Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela .
QUERETARO, Mexico, Feb. 25 (UPI) --
