Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 6, 2012 | Lite
A village in northern Colombia is holding its own version of the U.S. presidential election, four years after Barack Obama swept the unauthorized election with a staggering 94.8% of the votes. According to newspaper El Tiempo,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 6, 2012 | Guests
A likely marijuana legalization victory in Washington and Colorado in November will transform the global drug policy debate. After declaring in 1971 “We must wage total war against public enemy number one in the United States,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 6, 2012 | News
Four people were killed in combat between gangs and police in western Medellin on Monday. Fighting broke out in two of the city’s western districts; in the Comuna 13, one gang member and one civilian were killed, and in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 6, 2012 | War and peace
Dutch FARC guerrilla Tanja Nijmeijer arrived in Cuba Monday to join the rebel delegation that will begin talks with representatives of the government over a negotiated end to the country’s 48-year old armed conflict....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 4, 2012 | War and peace
Social and farmers’ organizations from the war-torn southwest of Colombia on Saturday demanded more input in peace talks with rebel group FARC in the first of several regional peace meetings with congressmen. The...
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