‘No coup’ in Paraguay: Colombia
The recent impeachment of Paraguay’s ex-president was “irregular” but no coup, said Colombia’s foreign minister Sunday. In an interview with newspaper El Tiempo, Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said...
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Colombia celebrates Gay Pride (photos)
Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 2, 2012 | Lite
Thousands celebrated Gay Pride in Colombia’s major cities Sunday. The biggest march was held in Bogota where an estimated 3,000 members and friends of the capital’s LGBT community walked from the National Park to the...
Read MoreValle del Cauca elects governor amidst fraud controversy
Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 1, 2012 | News
Colombia’s southwestern Valle del Cauca department elected a new governor Sunday amidst ongoing controversy over alleged electoral fraud. Unidad Vallecaucana candidate Ubeimar Delgado won the election convincingly of his...
Read MoreValle del Cauca elects governor; 6 arrested for fraud
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...
Read More5 assassinated in southwest Colombia massacre
Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 1, 2012 | News
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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