Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 7, 2012 | News
For the second time, Colombia on Thursday asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant for a former top government official who fled the country amid a fraud investigation. According to media reports, the...
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The Colombian state must compensate victims of forced displacement at the hands of the armed forces, the country’s highest administrative court ruled Thursday. The Council of State ruling followed a lawsuit by a family...
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Colombia’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the criminal investigation of six congressman and six former congressmen over their alleged ties to a paramilitary group. All politicians allegedly involved in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 7, 2012 | Lite
Colombian pop diva Shakira on Thursday released a video in which she is seen recording a song with her 81-year-old father. In the video, which also shows private moments of the Mebarak family, Shakira and her father William are...
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The former president of Colombia’s Supreme Court said Thursday he became victim of “political persecution” by the “regime of [former President] Alvaro Uribe” after court rulings opposed the...
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