Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 3, 2011 | News
A former senator who invited dozens of friends over to Bogota’s La Picota prison for a birthday dinner has been transferred to a prison in Barranquilla. The move was announced on Wednesday by Gustavo Adolfo Ricaurte, the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 2, 2011 | News
Some 164 members of leftist guerrilla groups demobilized in January, the government announced Tuesday. According to a report by the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized, 145 of the demobilized belonged to the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 2, 2011 | News
Colombia’s inspector general wants the court to sentence a number of former M-19 guerrillas for the 1985 siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, which left more than 100 people dead. According to the inspector general,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 2, 2011 | News
Family members of five miners who died in an explosion Tuesday say they will sue the state for neglecting to carry out security checks. According to the miners’ families, the shaft in which their loved ones died was...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 2, 2011 | News
Colombia’s interior and justice minister replaced the director of Bogota’s La Picota prison after ongoing reports of jailed politicians having parties. Minister German Vargas Lleras also warned the politicians who...
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