Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 9, 2013 | From the editor
Five years ago today I bought a domain called “colombiareports.co” and did my first-ever publication. Today, that blog is the biggest English-language news website in Latin America and I am proud as hell. I would...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 7, 2013 | News
Weekly Semana on Tuesday released a video of two German men who Colombia’s second largest rebel group ELN is claiming to hold hostage. In the video, the brothers Uwe and Günther Otto Brauer are filmed while eating...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 4, 2013 | News
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday authorized a humanitarian operation that aims to retrieve two policemen and one soldier who are held by the rebel group FARC. The operation will be carried out by international...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 3, 2013 | News
Authorities said Sunday they have found a mass grave in central Colombia containing 22 remains of presumed members of neo-paramilitary organization “Los Urabeños.” The mass grave was found in Tauramena, a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 3, 2013 | News
The Red Cross and peace advocacy group Colombians for Peace say they are ready to begin an operation to release two policemen and one soldier in hands of rebel group FARC. MORE: FARC announces to release captive policemen,...
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