Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 8, 2012 | News
Rescue workers have been able to release one of nine miners who were trapped in a coalmine in northwestern Colombia after their illegal mine flooded, newspaper La Vanguardia reports. Local newspaper El Colombiano did not confirm...
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Colombia’s inspector general appointed 266 errand boys, coffee ladies and cleaners to occupy Congress after the arrest of the country’s last remaining congressman for ties to paramilitary groups. Inspector General...
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Prosecution investigators on Tuesday arrested another former Congressman accused of having had ties to paramilitary group AUC. Former Representative Rafael Castillo was arrested after AUC commander “Ernesto Baez”...
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Nine people were reported trapped in a rural area just outside Medellin Tuesday after the mine the victims were working in flooded. The president of the local mining association told newspaper El Tiempo the accident occurred...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 7, 2012 | News
A U.S. court found three FARC rebels guilty of drug trafficking Tuesday. Among the rebels is “Sonia,” who the FARC repeatedly asked to be repatriated. Sonia, “Calvo” and “Flaco” are the first...
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