Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 6, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was released from hospital Saturday, three days after he was operated to have a tumor removed from his prostate. “I am completely healed,” said Santos when leaving the Bogota...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 6, 2012 | News
At least three people were killed and at least another 10 went missing Saturday when a mudslide caused by heavy rains flooded a village in the southwest of Colombia. The mudslide took the rural settlements of Villa de Prado and...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 5, 2012 | News
Colombia said Thursday that “Comba,” the supreme leader of drug gang “Los Rastrojos” and the country’s most wanted drug lord, has surrendered to U.S. authorities. Comba, whose real name is Luis...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 4, 2012 | News
A family of four has been assassinated in central Colombia, allegedly over a business dispute, local authorities said Thursday. The massacre took place in a rural area Abejorral, a municipality in the south of the Antioquia...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 4, 2012 | War and peace
Representatives of Colombia’s government and largest rebel group FARC will officially launch the peace talks in the Norwegian capital of Oslo on October 17, a Norwegian government spokeswoman says. Foreign Ministry...
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