Fiance of director of Colombia’s child welfare agency arrested on wedding day

Fiance of director of Colombia’s child welfare agency arrested on wedding day

Cristina Plazas, the director of Colombia’s child welfare agency, was supposed to get married on Friday, but didn’t because her fiance spent the intended wedding day in custody on corruption charges.

Social worker caught smuggling cocaine from Colombia in fake pregnancy belly

Social worker caught smuggling cocaine from Colombia in fake pregnancy belly

A social worker who tried to smuggle 2kg of cocaine through a Colombian airport has been arrested after she stuffed the drugs within a fake pregnancy belly.

Parents order bulletproof clothes for kids after deadly Newtown school shooting

Parents order bulletproof clothes for kids after deadly Newtown school shooting

A Colombian firm that makes bulletproof vests is now creating armoured clothing for children.

Note: See, now you're all getting paranoid after seeing all of that crap on TV.

Prostitutes in Colombia unite against child abuse

Prostitutes in Colombia unite against child abuse

Prostitutes have united in Colombia's port city and popular tourist destination, Cartagena, with the hopes of protecting children from an international network of pimps and sexual predators, AFP reports.

Money for child welfare misappropriated

Money for child welfare misappropriated

More than half of Colombian municipalities have not used funds allocated to child welfare on what they were supposed to, the country's Comptroller General revealed on Thursday.