Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 4, 2012 | News
“Timochenko,” the supreme leader of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group FARC, on Sunday denied recent atrocities allegedly committed by members of his rebel group. In an open letter published on the FARC’s...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 4, 2012 | Disinformation
Colombian pollsters are planning to export their methodology to the U.S., claiming “no president, not even Barack Obama, deserves an approval rating lower than 70%.” “While in the U.S., an approval rating...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 4, 2012 | News
Forty-nine human rights defenders were killed in Colombia last year while violence against these defenders went up by 36%, an NGO collective said Saturday. Spanish press agency EFE was given a report by “Somos...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 4, 2012 | News
Newspaper El Espectador was U.S. intelligence company Stratfor’s only media informant in Colombia, files released by Wikileaks showed. According to the leaked files, the newspaper signed an intelligence-sharing deal in...
Read MorePosted 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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