Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 15, 2012 | News
An indigenous leader from the troubled Cauca department in the southwest of Colombia has been assassinated, indigenous and national authorities said Friday. The leader was shot and killed by men on a motorcycle while in the...
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Three Colombian soldiers were injured in Egypt Friday when gunmen attacked an international peacekeeping base in anger over a film produced in the United States denigrating the prophet Muhammad. The Colombians were injured when...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 15, 2012 | News
Colombian authorities on Friday arrested four alleged members of the FARC, one of whom a family member of former Senator Piedad Cordoba. According to National Police director General Jose Roberto Leon, the suspects were arrested...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 15, 2012 | Culture
Alvaro Uribe is set to release No Lost Causes, a memoir in which Colombia’s ex-president gives his version of how he changed the country during his 2002-2010 presidency. According to publisher Penguin, the book...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 12, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday ordered the country’s inspector general to rectify claims opposing abortion and the use of the morning-after pill. The court gave Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez 48...
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