Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 16, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Supreme Court has convicted 37 congressmen and five governors for their ties to paramilitary groups since the scandal broke in 2006, the court said Wednesday. Court prosecutors are investigating another 139...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 16, 2012 | From the editor
I was going to write a whole op-ed on the attack on Colombia’s former Minister Fernando Londoño, but I am not going to. I am too disgusted about what happened and just want to wish a speedy recovery to Mr. Londoño and...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 16, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Supreme Court Wednesdsy dropped the charges against Piedad Cordoba for alleged irregularities in the financing of a fellow-politician. The court’s decision came two days after the Prosecutor...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 16, 2012 | Guests
A Facebook friend told me that in Colombia there’s quite a number of people who believe that Europe crowded with FARC sympathizers. At first this merely sounded surprising, yet, the more I thought about it, it actually...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 15, 2012 | News
At least five people were killed and another 19 were reported injured in an apparent attack on a former minister in the north of Colombia’s capital Bogota Tuesday. According to preliminary reports, a bomb in a bus exploded...
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