Posted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 8, 2012 | Disinformation
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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