The 8-storey "Monaco" apartments, equipped with extensive garage space for Escobar's luxury car collection were a symbol of evil, Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez told journalists.

The eight storey property, with vast garages for the drug lord's car collection, had become an unwelcome tourist attraction.

Two people have died and several more injured after villagers were fired on when they tried to stop a military convoy heading towards the Brazilian crossing.

Two rival concerts were planned on Friday on either side of a bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia.

Venezuelans line up as they cross the Colombian-Venezuelan border over the Simon Bolivar International Bridge outskirts of Cucuta

Colombians are hard at work picking and packaging flowers to export to the United States ahead of Valentine's Day.

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Santa Claus passes cabin to cabin, visiting passengers as the train chugs along. Santa and his helpers hand out gifts to good girls and boys, while many passengers pose for photos with the train-travelling Old St. Nick

Toys placed outside Colombian Congress to protest child abuse

The Colombian president's language on immigration contrasts sharply with that of European leaders.

Three months into his tenure as the new president of Colombia, Iván Duque speaks with Euronews' Ana Lazaro Bosch about his vision for the future of his country and an integrated South America.

"They have to cease unilaterally their criminal actions in a verifiable way"

Colombia says a former FARC leader who refused to sign up to the 2016 peace deal has been shot and injured

Regional politicians say the exodus of people fleeing economic crisis in Venezuela is worthy of global recognition