during 2008 in Colombia. President: Álvaro Uribe Vélez Vice President: Francisco Santos Calderón January 10 - FARC guerrillas release Colombian hostages...

Colombia competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The country sent 68 athletes to compete in 15 sports (archery, athletics, boxing, rowing, cycling, equestrian...

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland...

introduced species in Colombia. Four hippopotamuses were first kept by Pablo Escobar in his private zoo in the late 1970s, and upon his death in 1993, they were...

Miss Colombia 2008, the 74th Miss Colombia pageant, was held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on November 17, 2008, after two weeks of events. The winner...

The 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off involving the South American countries of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. It began with an...

The 2008 Copa Colombia, officially the 2008 Copa Postobón for sponsorship reasons, was the sixth edition of the Copa Colombia, the football tournament...

of Colombia is the fourth largest in Latin America as measured by gross domestic product and the third-largest economy in South America. Colombia has...

The 2008 Vuelta a Colombia, the competition's 58th edition, was held from May 10 to May 25, 2008. Colombia's Giovanny Báez was crowned champion after 50...

The illegal drug trade in Colombia has, since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels: Medellín, Cali, Norte del Valle...