Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2012 | News
Wealthy landowners paid paramilitary organization AUC approximately $26,000 for the 1997 massacre of Mapiripan in which an unknown amount of small farmers were killed, an ex-paramilitary commander testified Wednesday. According...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2012 | News
An explosives attack on an oil pipeline in the north of Colombia has caused an oil spill in the Catatumbo river, RCN Radio reported Wednesday. The explosion took place in the municipality of El Tarra, located in the region where...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2012 | News
Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana lashed out at Jose Obdulio Gaviria, calling the close ally of former President Alvaro Uribe an “advocate and adviser to the terrorist, drug trafficker and kidnapper Pablo...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2012 | Economy
Colombian stocks surged toward their highest price levels of the year Wednesday on optimism over efforts by the International Monetary Fund to repair global debt problems. The Colcap index, considered the benchmark for the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 18, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Supreme Court convicted three former Congressmen Wednesday of using the intimidation of right-wing death squads to get voted into office. Former Congressmen Luis Alberto Gil, Alfonso Riaño and Oscar Josue Reyes...
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