Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 26, 2012 | News
United States prosecutors are investigating the alleged ties of a former commander of the Colombian army with paramilitary death squads, newspaper El Espectador reports, newspaper El Espectador reported Sunday. According to the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday expressed his neighboring Venezuela where an explosion in the country’s biggest oil refinery killed at least 26 and injured at least 80 others. “I am sending a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Saturday he has not accepted the resignation of the country’s ministers of defense and foreign affairs who, together with all other ministers, had offered their resignation...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
The southwestern city of Tumaco was reconnected to Colombia’s electricity grid Saturday, 16 days after a series of FARC attacks on energy pylons disconnected the town. According to the local energy company, repairmen were...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 25, 2012 | News
Colombian police claimed Friday to have seized four tons of marijuana and destroyed nine cocaine labs in the west of the country. According to the director of the anti-narcotics unit of the police, the successful operations...
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