Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 19, 2012 | News
“El Loco Barrera,” considered Colombia’s most important drug lord of the past decade, has been arrested in Venezuela, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday. In a televised speech, Santos said Daniel...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 17, 2012 | News
Nineteen members of neo-paramilitary organization “Los Urabeños” have been arrested over the weekend in several operations in the north and northwest of Colombia, police said Monday. One of the suspects was...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 17, 2012 | War and peace
Colombians are showing “cautious optimism” regarding pending peace talks with guerrilla group FARC, said the director of pollster Ipsos-Napoleon Franco on Sunday after a poll registered a 77% support for the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 17, 2012 | News
Forest fires in Colombia have torched almost 35,000 acres of land since June, authorities said Sunday. According to the country’s disaster management office UNGRD, a total of 440 fires have broken out during the dry season...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 17, 2012 | News
Colombian authorities have seized more than six tons of cocaine and eight tons of marijuana in several counter-narcotics operations across the country, police said Sunday. According to General Alberto Perez of the anti-narcotis...
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