Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | News
Police in the southwest of Colombia seized a submarine allegedly belonging to the FARC’s 29th front. According to the police, the submarine was seized near the Pacific port city of Buenaventura on Friday and had the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | News
The suspended mayor of Bogota, sent to jail on corruption allegations Friday, spent his first night in his 12 by 12 foot luxury suite. Colombia’s prison authority released photos of disgraced Mayor Samuel Moreno’s...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | News
The vice president of Colombia’s largest workers union is wanted for the murder of his girlfriend, W Radio reported Friday. According to the radio station, a judge warranted the arrest of Hernan Correa Miranda, vice...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday he will be meeting with bankers, employers and unions to jointly prepare the country for a possible fallout of Europe’s debt crisis. Following a week of turbulence...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | News
The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine in northern Colombia, believed to have been caused by an accumulation of methane gas, has risen to seven, authorities said Friday. Colombia’s mining regulator Ingeominas had last...
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