Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 10, 2011 | News
Bogota police have arrested two men and one woman who are suspected of a grenade attack in the north of Colombia’s capital last week. According to the police, the suspects belong to the FARC’s Eastern Bloc and are...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 10, 2011 | News
The Colombian attorney of one of the extradited leaders of demobilized paramilitary organization AUC has been assassinated, Spanish press agency Efe reported Sunday. According to the news agency, Luis Llorente Llorente and a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 10, 2011 | News
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrives for an unofficial visit to Colombia to seek support for his people’s bid to be recognized a state by the United Nations. The trip to Colombia is one of a series of trips to U.N....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 9, 2011 | News
Four men and two women were killed in a farmhouse in the north of Colombia. One of the victims was a demobilized paramilitary allegedly still involved in drug trafficking. The massacre took place Friday evening just outside the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Oct 9, 2011 | News
Centrist candidate Enrique Peñalosa topped a Bogota mayoral poll released Saturday with his main opponents Gustavo Petro and Gina Parody percentage points behind. According to the poll carried out by Ipsos-Napolean Franco,...
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