Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 5, 2012 | zSports
Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen won silver in the women’s triple jump final Sunday, making the 2012 London games her country’s most successful Olympics ever. The Colombian athlete was beaten in the final by...
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A poll published Sunday by newspaper El Tiempo confirmed the urban approval rating of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has dropped below his disapproval rating. According to the poll, 43.9% of the respondents said to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 2, 2012 | News
Police in northeast Colombia have arrested a soldier who allegedly was trafficking arms for rebel group ELN, local media reported Thursday. According to the reports, the army sergeant was apprehended at a road block while...
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A group of employees and ex-employees of the Colombian branch of General Motors began a hunger strike in front of the U.S. embassy in Bogota Wednesday to protest the firing of colleagues on sick leave. The hunger strike followed...
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Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group ELN on Wednesday released a video of two women who were kidnapped in the northeast of the country last week. In the video, journalist Elida Parra Alfonso and environmental engineer...
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