Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 2, 2012 | News
New Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro vows to raise taxes for the rich and decree a full ban on carrying weapons as one of many measures to decrease inequality in Colombia’s capital city and lower the city’s crime rate....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 1, 2012 | News
Police in the northwest of Colombia on Sunday killed “Giovanni,” one of the two leaders of “Los Urabeños,” the most powerful neo-paramilitary group in the country. The neo-paramilitary drug lord was...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 1, 2012 | News
Gustavo Petro, one of Colombia’s most prolific leftist politicians, on Sunday was sworn in as mayor of Bogota, considered the second-most important political position in the country after president. The new mayor takes...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 1, 2012 | News
One day before taking office, the mayor-elect of a town in the southwest Colombian department of Nariño was shot and killed by unknown gunmen Saturday. “This morning two unknown men hot and killed, in front of his house,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 31, 2011 | News
An alleged bomb attack on a police station in southern Colombia killed two and seriously injured seven on Friday. The blast occured around 10PM inside the police station in the town of Orito, Putumayo. The two fatalities are the...
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