Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 10, 2011 | News
Bogota authorities were able to lower the water level in the flooded southwest of Colombia’s capital by pumping water into lesser populated fields. According to the local authorities the water level had dropped a foot by...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 10, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has dropped all charges against a former vice minister of agriculture after he vowed to testify against other suspects, including the former minister, in a major embezzlement...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 9, 2011 | Guests
Putumayo electoral observer Eladio Yascual Imbaquin called website La Silla Vacia two weeks ago. He said that he had proof against the mayor-elect in the town of Mocoa, but was not comfortable speaking about the matter over the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 9, 2011 | News
Venezuela said Thursday it will deport the girlfriend of arrested drug lord “Valenciano,” leader of the Medellin-based “Oficina de Envigado” to Colombia. According to newspaper El Tiempo, Viviana Cecilia...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 8, 2011 | News
Four people died Wednesday when a landslide in the northeast of Colombia buried a bus under tons of rubble. According to the police commissioner of Santander, the department where the incident took place, the bus was half a mile...
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