Posted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 22, 2012 | News
Colombian guerrilla group FARC released three Chinese hostages and a translator Wednesday that were kidnapped last year, reported local media Thursday. The Chinese citizens were delivered to the Red Cross in Los Pozos (see map),...
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 21, 2012 | News
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group FARC on Wednesday condemned a proposed constitutional reform that would expand the powers of the military courts at the expense of civilian justice. The proposed reforms, sponsored by the...
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 21, 2012 | News
Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro has come up with good policies for Colombia’s capital, but needs to “stop improvising” to up his poor approval ratings, former mayor and presidential candidate Antanas Mockus said....
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 21, 2012 | News
Gay rights organization “Colombia Diversa” slammed Senator Roberto Gerlein for calling gay sex “dirty, repulsive…excremental and [deserving of] condemnation”. The senator’s comments were “prejudiced,...
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 21, 2012 | News
A Bogota court extended the international arrest warrant for the former director of the now-defunct Colombian intelligence agency DAS. Judge Fabio Fernandez extended by one year the arrest warrant of Maria del Pilar Hurtado. “It...
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