Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 6, 2011 | News
A landslide caused by heavy rains left 14 people dead and dozens more missing in northwest Colombia on Saturday, a Red Cross official said. Cesar Uruena, a Red Cross rescue director, said the landslide buried more than 14 homes...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 6, 2011 | News
The FARC confirmed the death of their leader “Alfonso Cano” and rejected government calls to demobilize without “the abolition of the causes that gave birth to the uprising” in a press statement published...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 5, 2011 | News
Replacing FARC leader “Alfonso Cano,” who was killed by the Colombian army Friday, will be difficult as there is no clear successor and the guerrilla organization may take weeks to resolve its leadership issue....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 5, 2011 | News
The Colombian military “Operation Odysseus” that killed FARC leader “Alfonso Cano” on Friday began months earlier when armed forces attacked FARC camps in the south of the Tolima department where the FARC...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 5, 2011 | News
The death of FARC leader “Alfonso Cano” is the guerrilla organization’s “biggest blow in all its history,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday just after midnight, hours after the...
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