Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 12, 2013 | News
More than 7,500 Colombians have disappeared in 2012, which is a 76% increase compared to the year before and the highest number in ten years, a report by the country’s coroner’s office revealed Monday. According to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 10, 2013 | News
Panama said Sunday it has arrested the top leader of the “Oficina de Envigado,” a Medellin crime syndicate once formed by Pablo Escobar. Alias “Pichi” is suspected to have ordered the killing of nine...
Read MorePosted 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...
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