Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 23, 2012 | News
More than 350 people have disappeared since January 2011 in Colombia’s most western department Choco, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. According to the daily, local media and human rights defenders blamed “Los...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2012 | War and peace
Colombia rebel group FARC said Saturday it will be “serious,” “sensible” and “pragmatic” when negotiating an end of the country’s 48-year-old armed conflict with the government next...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday asked media for “discretion” and “prudence” regarding their reporting on the upcoming peace talks with the FARC. Peace talks news archive The president...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2012 | News
Colombian drug lord “El Loco Barrera,” who was arrested in Venezuela on Tuesday, been succeeded by a former commander of neo-paramilitary group ERPAC, newspaper El Tiempo reported Saturday. According to police...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 21, 2012 | War and peace
A Colombia Reports readers poll on Friday showed similar skepticism about a positive outcome of peace talks between the government the FARC as showed by a recent poll among Colombians. Of 500 votes that came in between September...
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