Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 14, 2012 | News
Colombia’s anti-narcotics police said Saturday Medellin-based crime syndicate “Oficina de Envigado” assassinated two policemen in that city. The two policemen were shot Thursday in broad daylight in front of...
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Ongoing fighting between Colombia’s armed forces and the FARC in the southwest of the country is causing a “delicate humanitarian situation,” said a local ombudsman Saturday. Since fighting escalated last week,...
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The Colombian military tried to “cover up” the responsibility of a high-level commander in the 1997 Mapiripan massacre by falsely implicating a lower-ranked official, the state department said in a declassified 2003...
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The drug trafficking charges against the former security chief of Colombia’s ex-president Alvaro Uribe are the “tip of the iceberg” of a major corruption scandal involving dozens of Colombian state agents,...
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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....
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