Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 14, 2011 | News
President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday that if Colombia wasn’t facing an armed conflict he, former President Alvaro Uribe and the military top would all be going to jail. Santos’ remark is the latest in a number...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 14, 2011 | Lite
Former model and beauty queen Yovanna Guzman wrote a book about her relationship with one of Colombia’s biggest drug lords ever, Norte del Valle cartel capo and alleged godfather of drug gang Los Rastrojos Wilber Varela,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 14, 2011 | News
Flooding of the Bogota river is again causing emergency situations north of the capital, local aid agencies said Friday. The chairman of the Cundinamarca department’s Disaster Attention and Prevention agency said the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 14, 2011 | News
In a countrywide offensive against drug trafficking, Colombian police on Friday arrested another 22 alleged members of drug gangs, this time in the south-western department of Cauca. The arrests were made in the town of Miranda...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 14, 2011 | News
A judge on Friday ordered the arrest of two members of the powerful Vives Lacouture family who refuse to cooperate with authorities to explain how they unjustly received millions of dollars in government subsidy. Ines Margarita...
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