Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 1, 2012 | News
Six men were arrested for fraud only hours before Colombia’s southwestern Valle del Cauca department took to the polls to redo last year’s local elections. Among those arrested were the secretary of controversial...
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Five suspected members of drug trafficking organization “Los Rastrojos” were assassinated outside a bar in the southwest of Colombia Sunday. According to the mayor of Tumaco, the town where the massacre took place,...
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The United Arab Emirates is seeking to enlist 3,000 Colombian soldiers in the oil-rich Arab country’s armed forces, weekly Semana reported Sunday. According to the weekly, 842 Colombian soldiers and retired soldiers have...
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Authorities in central Colombia on Sunday lowered the alert level to orange after a calming down of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano that erupted Saturday. “Over the past hours … the emission of gases and ashes continued...
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The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in central Colombia erupted Saturday, forcing authorities to declare a red alert and order the immediate evacuation of some 2,300 people out of fear an expanding eruption may cause avalanches....
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