Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 5, 2012 | News
The Colombian government announced Friday Friday that Jose Roberto Leon will succeed Oscar Naranjo, the widely hailed outgoing National Police director who will step down on May 15. Leon is the current deputy director of the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 3, 2012 | News
The website of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC appears to have been hacked and is promoting an Argentine party instead of spreading the revolutionary message of the guerrillas. The domain farc-ep.co, registered by the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 2, 2012 | News
A woman who identified herself as a member of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC on Tuesday claimed the guerrillas are holding the French journalist who went missing this weekend as “prisoner of war.” The...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 1, 2012 | News
Thirteen members of Colombia’s armed forces died in the north of Colombia Monday when the helicopter they were flying in caught fire and crashed. The helicopter, a Bell 212, reportedly caught fire while flying from the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 29, 2012 | News
A French journalist has disappeared after he was injured in a deadly FARC attack on an army platoon the reporter was accompanying, Colombia’s defense minister said Sunday. According to France, the journalist was captured...
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