Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 29, 2012 | War and peace
Peace talks between Colombia’s government and the country’s largest rebel group FARC will not begin October 8 as planned because judicial authorities have been delayed in suspending arrest warrants of rebel...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 28, 2012 | News
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos claimed Friday that in the almost 50 years of his country’s conflict nobody has hit guerrilla group FARC as hard as he has. Santos made the statement in an interview on CNN explaining...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 28, 2012 | Lite
A blonde girl won a Colombian reality show Thursday, prolonging her presence on national television. The (probably bleached) blonde girl, Sara Uribe, successfully spent the past months competing with fellow wanna-be celebrities...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 27, 2012 | News
The cultivation of coca in Peru has gone up in 2011, but slightly less than in Colombia which remains the world’s largest producer of coca, the United Nations says. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 25, 2012 | From the editor
Imagine the massive scandal that would hit your government if your people, for example through the media, found out that your own security forces have been murdering compatriots to cook the books on their effectiveness. God...
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