Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 3, 2012 | News
Venezuela has arrested and deported one of the top commanders of guerrilla group ELN, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Saturday. “Caliche,” a member of the guerrilla group’s central command, was...
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Some 2,600 students and teachers from a Miami high school took to the streets Friday to protest a deportation order against an 18-year old Colombian schoolmate whose parents illegally migrated to the U.S. when she was four. The...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 3, 2012 | zSports
Colombia’s Santiago Ferrer lost the semi finals of the ATP500 tournament in the Mexican city of Acapulco to Spain’s David Ferrer Friday. Giraldo, 80 in the ATP rankings lost in two sets (7-5 and 6-4) to Ferrer, the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 3, 2012 | News
Police in the northeast of Colombia said Friday they have arrested eight FARC informants. According to the police, the five men and three women were in charge of gathering intelligence for the FARC’s 38th, 45th and 56th...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 2, 2012 | News
A judge in the north of Colombia on Thursday ordered the release of two lawmakers who had been sentenced in January to seven and a half years in jail over links to paramilitary groups. According to the judge in the city of...
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