Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2012 | Tourism
In an offensive to promote Colombia as a golf tourism destination, the country’s tourism and export promotion agency says it has invited golf critics and members of the Global Gold Tourism Organisation (IAGTO) to try out...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is unfairly taking the heat over the country’s apparently failing security policy. The main security challenges Colombia is facing now are rebounding guerrilla groups, urban gangs and...
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Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday he would allow Brazilian helicopters to take part in a release operation of six FARC hostages, breaking the deadlock generated when the government initially insisted it...
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Colombia’s defense minister said Sunday the army has seized as much as six tons of explosives and arms allegedly belonging to the FARC. According to the country’s Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, the “mega...
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Colombian police said Sunday their Ecuadorean colleagues have arrested the middleman between Colombian drug lord “El Loco Barrera” and Mexican drug lord “El Chapo Guzman.” The suspect, Heriberto Fernandez...
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