Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 11, 2013 | News
A grenade explosion on Sunday night killed one person and wounded another five near the northern Colombian city of Cucuta. According to reports, unknown men lobbed a grenade against a billiard hall. The attack took place in the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 11, 2013 | News
Rebels from Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, on Sunday launched an attack on an oil site in northern Colombia. According to reports, a group of FARC insurgents approached a construction site in Teorama in the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 9, 2013 | News
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked Colombia Saturday morning. There were no preliminary reports on damages or injuries. The epicenter of the earthquake was in Yacuanquer, a village in the southwestern Nariño department some seven...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 9, 2013 | News
Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, announced Friday the end of the armed strike which has paralyzed western Colombia for over a week. The rebels said the strike, which began in the Choco department on the first of...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 8, 2013 | News
Medellin’s High Tribunal on Friday said that the Colombian Army must apologize for not stopping a paramilitary massacre of eight civilians in the northwestern Antioquia department in 2005. The Tribunal ordered the Colombian Army...
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