Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 26, 2012 | War and peace
Colombia’s environment minister and one of President Juan Manuel Santos’ senior advisers are involved in preliminary peace talks with the FARC in Cuba, newspaper El Espectador reported Sunday. According to the...
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Almost 30% of Colombia’s indigenous population is living in extreme poverty and the majority of indigenous children is suffering chronic malnutrition, said the United Nations Sunday. According to a report by the United...
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United States prosecutors are investigating the alleged ties of a former commander of the Colombian army with paramilitary death squads, newspaper El Espectador reports, newspaper El Espectador reported Sunday. According to the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday expressed his neighboring Venezuela where an explosion in the country’s biggest oil refinery killed at least 26 and injured at least 80 others. “I am sending a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Saturday he has not accepted the resignation of the country’s ministers of defense and foreign affairs who, together with all other ministers, had offered their resignation...
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