Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 31, 2012 | News
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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 30, 2012 | News
Displaced Colombians have requested the return of 4.8 million acres of land stolen by illegal armed groups, corrupt government officials and businesses, the national government said Monday. According to the Agriculture...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 30, 2012 | Culture
Vallenato hero Diomedez Diaz was taken to a hospital in the north of Colombia Tuesday after a car accident. The car in which the iconic singer was transported reportedly crashed in a rural area just north of the city of...
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