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Colombia nabs men with $40,000 in cash in their stomachs
Colombia police said they have arrested two men who had each ingested about $40,000 before trying to enter the country, in what may be a novel form of money laundering. The men were detained separately during the past week at the international airport in Colombia’s second city of Medellin and…
A ‘peace community’ in war-ravaged Colombia
SAN JOSE DE APARTADO, Colombia — The scene in rural Colombia might have been lifted from a picture postcard. Horses graze in a pasture and children scamper among flowering trees. But the idyllic image belies the stark realities of life in San Jose de Apartado, a “peace community” in northwestern…
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