Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 15, 2012 | News
Colombian armed forces said they have arrested 10 FARC rebels in operations in the southwest of the country Saturday. According to a press release, five members of the FARC’s Jacobo Arenas Mobile Column were arrested in Morales,...
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An indigenous leader from the troubled Cauca department in the southwest of Colombia has been assassinated, indigenous and national authorities said Friday. The leader was shot and killed by men on a motorcycle while in the...
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Three Colombian soldiers were injured in Egypt Friday when gunmen attacked an international peacekeeping base in anger over a film produced in the United States denigrating the prophet Muhammad. The Colombians were injured when...
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Colombian authorities on Friday arrested four alleged members of the FARC, one of whom a family member of former Senator Piedad Cordoba. According to National Police director General Jose Roberto Leon, the suspects were arrested...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 15, 2012 | Culture
Alvaro Uribe is set to release No Lost Causes, a memoir in which Colombia’s ex-president gives his version of how he changed the country during his 2002-2010 presidency. According to publisher Penguin, the book...
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