Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 9, 2012 | News
Two policemen have been killed and one has been injured in an alleged FARC attack in the southwest of Colombia, authorities said Monday. Colonel Ricardo Augusto Alarcon, commander of police in the southwestern Cauca department,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 8, 2012 | News
Colombian guerrilla groups like the FARC and ELN are the owners of some 120,834 acres of land in the south of Colombia, Caracol Radio reported Sunday. The radio station said it was given results of preliminary investigations...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 8, 2012 | Lite
A boy who found a so-called spectacled bear cub near his remote rural home in the southern Colombian Huila department looked after it for weeks until his parents finally called the authorities. Vets said the three-month old...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 7, 2012 | News
Colombian police said Saturday they have arrested another 13 members of neo-paramilitary organization “Los Urabeños.” The arrests in the cities of Medellin and Santa Marta, and the towns of Frontino and Buenavista...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 7, 2012 | News
A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was reunited with her family in the United States Friday. The 15-year-old girl is at the centre of an international mystery over how a minor...
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