Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2012 | News
Colombian drug lord “El Loco Barrera,” who was arrested in Venezuela on Tuesday, been succeeded by a former commander of neo-paramilitary group ERPAC, newspaper El Tiempo reported Saturday. According to police...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 21, 2012 | War and peace
A Colombia Reports readers poll on Friday showed similar skepticism about a positive outcome of peace talks between the government the FARC as showed by a recent poll among Colombians. Of 500 votes that came in between September...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 21, 2012 | War and peace
Colombia will reconstruct a National Peace Council allowing civilian organizations to indirectly take part in a peace process with guerrilla group FARC that is set to begin in October. Lawmakers made the announcement after a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 21, 2012 | News
Colombia’s chief prosecutor said Thursday he will increase the number of prosecutors investigating the murders of some 3,000 civilians by the armed forces, warning that “poor results” made so far could lead to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 21, 2012 | News
A judge has revoked the acquittal of a leftist guerrilla accused in the killings of three Americans in Colombia in 1999 and ordered his arrest, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Thursday. Angelo Caceres, alias “El...
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