Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 20, 2011 | News
United States military aid to Colombia serves more to enrich private defense companies than to help the Andean nation, said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an interview published Sunday. In a video-interview with Colombian...
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An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale caused panic the south-west of Colombia Sunday, but left no damage or injuries. The earthquake occurred at 8:30 AM was felt in Cali and several towns in the departments of Valle...
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An airplane flying from Medellin to Monteria was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday after one of the engines shut down. According to several media, the incident happened 20 minutes after the Aires airplane had taken off...
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Authorities have raised the number of fatal victims of a bus accident in the central Colombian Cundinamarca department to 21, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. According to the police, the brakes of a bus stopped working and...
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At least 15 people were killed and another 16 were injured in a bus accident on the road from the capital Bogota to the more southern Villavicencio, police said Saturday. Several authorities told media that a bus crashed against...
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