Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 31, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that mayors are not allowed to ban bullfights in their cities. In its ruling, the court specified that informal bullfights held outside permanent arenas — like the...
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“Mi Sangre,” a feared commander of Colombia’s largest neo-paramilitary group, the “Urabeños,” has been arrested in Argentina, Colombia’s national police announced Tuesday. According to...
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The approval rating of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos rose four percentage points to 58% over the past two months, according to a Gallup poll. The poll, results of which were published in several media on Wednesday,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 31, 2012 | From the editor
While Medellin mayor Anibal Gaviria prefers to come up with any number showing a declining murder rate and ignores ongoing forced disappearances and an increasing number of cases of forced displacement. While the local police...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 30, 2012 | News
Colombia’s former vice President Francisco Santos met with top commanders of far-right paramilitary organization AUC on several occasions, three of the now-demobilized AUC’s former commanders said in a recorded...
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