Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2012 | News
The mothers of 19 young men on Sunday commemorated the death of their sons whose extrajudicial execution unleashed investigations into the killing of some 3,000 civilians at the hands of Colombia’s armed forces. The...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2012 | Culture
Colombia’s most successful actress, Sofia Vergara, failed to obtain an Emmy award for the third consecutive year Sunday. The Barranquilla-born bombshell had been nominated for an Emmy as Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy...
Read MorePosted 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...
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