Police officers found around 1.7 tons of cocaine hidden within a shipment of avocados in Santa Marta, Colombia, according to the director general of the National Police of Colombia.

The Santa Marta sabrewing (Campylopterus phainopeplus) was originally discovered in 1946 along the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of Colombia. Like other species of sabrewing, it’s ...

Santa Marta's Mayor Carlos Pinedo said Sunday that four people suspected of his murder and dismemberment had been arrested in raids in the Colombian capital Bogota, the second city of Medellin as ...

The country is rich in water resources. Yet many people in the city of Santa Marta struggle to get enough to meet daily needs. They improvise, strategize — and rely on a tangle of 1-inch pipes.

Besides this, gaining control of Santa Marta, one of Colombia’s main northern cities on the coast, would allow the AGC to expand their dispatching of cocaine shipments north through the Caribbean. SEE ...