Pereira designer Laura Echeverri Giraldo won the 2026 James Dyson Award Colombia with Encaja, a system designed to reduce production costs and simplify the fabrication of personalized upper-limb prosthetic sockets. The project uses a smartphone to capture the shape of a person’s residual limb, then…
Domenico Reina Villegas, an 8-year-old Colombian boy, achieved an outstanding result at the 2026 Mental Math World Cup, finishing sixth and placing among the 10 best participants in the world. His performance made him one of Colombia’s youngest representatives to reach this stage of an…
Maria Virgelina Taborda Henao, 71, is said to have stolen jewellery from a Jordanian princess living in London which was later sold at auction in England.
Víctor Hugo Ayala, the Bogotá-born singer of about 48 albums who sang all 11 stanzas of Colombia’s anthem, died on 6 October aged 92. The post Colombian Bolero Singer Víctor Hugo Ayala Dies at 92 appeared first on The Rio Times .
The work of a young robotics teacher from Bogota, but who carries out her activities in the conflict-ridden department of Guaviare, in the southeast of the country, was recognized by the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. Her name is Tatiana Munoz, a robotics enthusiast since…
The chairman of Colombia's New York-listed oil company Ecopetrol attacked two news outlets on Monday, and the press group FLIP asked the president to respond. The post Ecopetrol Chairman Calls 2 Colombian Outlets Activists appeared first on The Rio Times .
Next October 22, the film “La Sinfonia de los Bichos Raros” will be released in Colombia, but before its arrival in the country, the film, shot entirely in Medellin, will have an appointment at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia – Sitges, considered the most important…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that Colombian citizen Luis Pino-Copete, 42, a Bogota resident, and his partner, Jael Watts, 45, of Alloway, New Jersey, were found guilty by a jury of orchestrating a nationwide scheme to steal millions of dollars in federal program funds…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that Colombian citizen Luis Pino-Copete, 42, a resident of Bogota, and “his lover” Jael Watts, 45, a resident of Alloway, New Jersey, were found guilty by a jury of orchestrating an extensive nationwide scheme to steal millions of dollars in…