Posted 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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 22, 2012 | News
Some 1,500 Colombian left-wing social and political organizations came together in Bogota Saturday to found a new political party ideologically aligned with leftist governments elsewhere in South America. The Patriotic March...
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