Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 7, 2012 | News
Demobilized paramilitary organization AUC spent more than $134 thousand in the northern department of Cordoba to support the successful 2002 presidential campaign of Alvaro Uribe, said a former ally of both the AUC and Uribe in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 7, 2012 | News
Venezuela on Saturday closed the border with Colombia and other neighbors ahead of the country’s presidential election Sunday. The country’s Interior and Justice Minister Tareck Al Aissami announced the closing of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 6, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was released from hospital Saturday, three days after he was operated to have a tumor removed from his prostate. “I am completely healed,” said Santos when leaving the Bogota...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 6, 2012 | News
At least three people were killed and at least another 10 went missing Saturday when a mudslide caused by heavy rains flooded a village in the southwest of Colombia. The mudslide took the rural settlements of Villa de Prado and...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 5, 2012 | News
Colombia said Thursday that “Comba,” the supreme leader of drug gang “Los Rastrojos” and the country’s most wanted drug lord, has surrendered to U.S. authorities. Comba, whose real name is Luis...
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