Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 10, 2013 | News
Colombian authorities on Sunday raised the number of victims of Saturday’s earthquake in the southwest to 15, while affirming that nearly 1,900 homes have been damaged in the magnitude 7 quake. The government of the Cauca...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 10, 2013 | News
Colombian rebel group FARC said Sunday it is ready to surrender three captured members of Colombia’s security forces to the Red Cross and peace activists. The two policemen and one soldier were detained on two occasions by...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 10, 2013 | Caribbean
The northern Colombian city of Barranquilla on Saturday became an explosion of sounds, colors and movements while celebrating the most important event of its carnival, the Battle of the Flowers. Hundreds of extravagantly...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 10, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC said Saturday it wants nine million hectares of agricultural land to be given to poor farmers as part of an eventual peace deal with the government. The demand is only one of ten new...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 10, 2013 | News
A former congressmen and eight other allies of former President Alvaro Uribe might go to jail while awaiting trial over their alleged role in fraud committed during a failed attempt to have Colombia’s former head of state...
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