Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 3, 2012 | News
Two mayors from towns in the north of Colombia have been sworn into office despite being in jail on murder and parapolitics charges. Both mayors are from the troubled Cordoba department and were sworn in Friday and Saturday...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 3, 2012 | News
Colombian lawmakers want to propose a bill that allows mayors to decree a full ban on carrying weapons as new Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro wants in the capital, newspaper el Espectador reported Tuesday. According to the newspaper,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 3, 2012 | News
Colombia police said Monday that homicides dropped 5% in 2011 compared to the year before, reiterating that the country’s homicide rate is at its lowest since 1984. Monday’s final report followed a preliminary report...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 3, 2012 | News
Colombia’s National Police released video material and details Monday regarding the operation that killed drug lord “Giovanni,” leader of the powerful “Urabeños” on January 1. According to the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 2, 2012 | News
An explosion in an allegedly illegal gold mine in central Colombia has killed at least three miners, the country’s mining authority said Monday. A spokesperson of the Colombian Institute for geology and Mining told...
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