Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 14, 2012 | News
Colombia’s state council on Friday suspended the popular governor of the western Choco department while a lower court began investigating whether the governor should be dismissed over a 1997 corruption conviction....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 12, 2012 | News
Two policemen of Medellin’s counter-narcotics unit have been assassinated, the city’s Police Department announced Thursday. According to a press release. the two men were shot and killed in the morning by men on...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 12, 2012 | From the editor
The rift between Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and his predecessor Alvaro Uribe is a welcome step in Colombia’s development as a democracy. Colombia has been a constitutional republic for decades, but the quality of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 12, 2012 | zSports
Santa Fe and Pasto on Wednesday drew 1-1 in the first leg of the final of this year’s first of two soccer leagues. The two teams met in the southwestern Colombian city of Pasto ahead of Sunday’s last leg of the final...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 10, 2012 | News
A member of the Bogota council on Tuesday has demanded the impeachment of mayor Gustavo Petro because of his criminal record, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. According to U Party council member Orlando Parada, Petro should be...
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