Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 7, 2013 | War and peace
Marcos Calarca, one of the leading FARC negotiators at the ongoing peace talks with the Colombian government in Havana, Cuba, said on Thursday former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was a key facilitator in the dialogue between...
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A Colombian drug trafficker considered one of the leading members of the mafia in the capital Bogota has been captured in Ecuador. Ecuadorean police said alias “Mosquito” was one of the leading members of the...
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Spanish authorities announced on Thursday “The Bogota Platform,” a plan to reinforce the struggle against transatlantic drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe. The Spanish interior minister, Jorge Fernandez...
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Rebels from Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, the ELN, on Wednesday blew up a section of an oil pipeline in the northeastern Arauca department. Local media reported activity at the Caño Limon-Coveñas oil pipeline had to...
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The Colombian government and the coffee strikers temporarily suspended negotiations on Thursday after having failed to reach an agreement on subsidies for the country’s coffee sector. MORE: Colombian govt meets with coffee...
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