Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 27, 2011 | News
The FARC is increasingly executing members that try deserting the rebel group, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday based on alleged documents found on the computer of the rebels’ slain military leader...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
The Bogota comptroller and a House representative from the capital are barred from holding public office for 20 and 15 years respectively for fraudulently granting public contracts. The double sentence is the first in what is...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | Economy
More than security issues, the development of infrastructure in Colombia is hindered by corruption, says the infrastructure expert of economic website Business News Americas that is organizing a summit on infrastructure in the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office dismissed 17 soldiers two years after they were convicted for the massacre of 10 members of a police anti-narcotics squad in 2006. The soldiers ambushed and murdered the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
Colombia’s interior and justice minister announced Thursday that illegal armed groups threaten to influence October’s local elections in 300 of Colombia’s 1,099 municipalities. Previously the government had...
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