Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
The southwestern city of Tumaco was reconnected to Colombia’s electricity grid Saturday, 16 days after a series of FARC attacks on energy pylons disconnected the town. According to the local energy company, repairmen were...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
Colombian police claimed Friday to have seized four tons of marijuana and destroyed nine cocaine labs in the west of the country. According to the director of the anti-narcotics unit of the police, the successful operations...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
A judge in the northeast of Colombian has absolved eight soldiers who had been accused of murdering civilians in order to present them as guerrillas killed in combat, the local army commander saif Friday. According to the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 24, 2012 | News
Colombia will seek the extradition of a retired police general who is currently in a U.S. prison after admitting to supporting terrorist organizations, President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday. Santos said on a local radio...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 24, 2012 | News
A recently discovered diary of extradited drug lord “Chupeta” in which payments made to high Colombian justice and military officials appeared has been proven fake, said Colombia’s chief prosecutor Thursday....
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