Adriaan Alsema, Author at Colombia News

Vicente Castaño

Vicente Castaño, a.k.a. “El Profe,” is the presumably dead founder of now-defunct...

Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera, a.k.a. “Simon Trinidad,” was one the FARC’s...

Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 1, 2017 | News

At least 154 people were killed, 174 injured and 200 are missing after floods hit Mocoa, the...

Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 31, 2017 | News

A 21-year-old student from Colombia’s coffee region was able to remove one corrupt senator...

Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 31, 2017 | War and peace

The transitional justice system in charge of trying war crimes committed during Colombia’s...