Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 11, 2012 | News
Leaders from the western Colombian department of Choco expressed their frustration Saturday about what they call a lack of response of the national government to a shut-down of the area by guerrilla group FARC. The leaders were...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 10, 2012 | News
Five stations of Bogota’s mass transit system Transmilenio were completely destroyed after riots occurred during protests over the bad performance of the city’s public transport system. According to Bogota mayor...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 9, 2012 | News
Three policemen have been killed and a fourth was injured in a roadside bomb attack in the southwest of Colombia, authorities said Thursday. According to official sources, the four policemen were driving on a country road in the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 9, 2012 | News
Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro, several leftist congressmen and human rights defenders have received a letter notifying prominent leftist political politicians they have been “sentenced to death” in a letter signed by...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 8, 2012 | News
Colombia’s vice president formally asked the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office to inform him on advances made in the investigations into the killings of human rights workers. Vice President Angelino Garzon...
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