Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 8, 2012 | Guests
Women are needed, not only in the home, but also at the negotiating table, to achieve peace. Decisions made without women not only are less likely to include consideration of women and their specific struggles, but also such...
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Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC said Sunday that international police organization Interpol has suspended international arrest warrants for rebel leaders that are set to travel to Norway for peace negotiations with the...
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Demobilized paramilitary organization AUC spent more than $134 thousand in the northern department of Cordoba to support the successful 2002 presidential campaign of Alvaro Uribe, said a former ally of both the AUC and Uribe in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 7, 2012 | News
Venezuela on Saturday closed the border with Colombia and other neighbors ahead of the country’s presidential election Sunday. The country’s Interior and Justice Minister Tareck Al Aissami announced the closing of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 6, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was released from hospital Saturday, three days after he was operated to have a tumor removed from his prostate. “I am completely healed,” said Santos when leaving the Bogota...
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