Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 29, 2010 | News
Members of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC kidnapped five people, of which four belong to one family, authorities said Tuesday. The incident took place outside the town of Tame in the eastern Arauca department....
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday confirmed the capture of a prominent ELN rebel and said his country will not allow “the incursion of any subversive Colombian” group in his country. “In this I am...
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“Cuchillo,” one of Colombia’s most wanted drug lords, was killed while celebrating Christmas Eve after a three-week police operation, newspaper El Tiempo reported Wednesday. Colombia’s National Police did...
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Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe was taken to hospital Tuesday after a horse kicked him in the chest. The incident happened in Llanogrande, a rural area outside of Medellin where Uribe has a farmhouse. According to...
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Paramilitary drug lord “Cuchillo,” one of Colombia’s most wanted criminals, has been killed, Colombian police said Tuesday. Cuchillo, whose real name was Pedro Oliverio Guerrero, was killed by police forces in...
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