Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 19, 2013 | News
A 13-year-old boy was killed on Saturday after refusing to give 200 pesos (ten cents) to a thief in Colombia’s capital city of Bogota. According to police, the boy, Nicolas Acosta Piña, was waiting for some friends in the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 19, 2013 | News
Colombian airline Avianca said Tuesday it would cancel several flights due to a strike at Spanish airline Iberia. Avianca announced the cancelation of the 026 Bogota-Madrid and 027 Madrid-Bogota flights between Tuesday and...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 19, 2013 | News
Colombia’s defense ministry claimed Monday that policemen captured by the rebel group FARC in late January and released last week have been subject to “torture.” “The heroes were subject to torture by the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 18, 2013 | News
Colombia’s two main left-wing guerrilla groups FARC and ELN Monday announced the forming of an alliance to increase attacks against state security forces and to sabotage large-scale multinational projects in the northwestern...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 18, 2013 | News
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Monday said that the Canadian miner kidnapped by the group in late January will “remain” in captivity. “The Canadian engineer Jernoc Wobert…is...
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