Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 17, 2012 | News
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday warned for a possible increase in attacks by guerrilla group FARC as response to a military offensive against the rebels. “Possibly, while we are hitting them...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 17, 2012 | News
A U.S. prosecutor has filed drug trafficking charges against a retired Colombian police general who was former President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief, newspaper El Tiempo reports. According to the charges filed before the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 15, 2012 | Bogota
Bogota authorities have been “rediscovering” Colombia’s capital to find ecotourism possibilities in the metropolis’ poor south that so far has been virtually unknown to tourists, the city’s top...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 15, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Congress on Thursday approved a controversial legal amendment as part of the Justice Reform Act that has been widely rejected by the country’s high courts and which will improve the legal defense...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 14, 2012 | News
The lawyers collective defending 10 victims of the 1997 Mapiripan massacre said Thursday it will return $240,000 the Colombian State was ordered to pay to a woman who later said to have lied about being a victim of the massacre....
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