Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 12, 2011 | News
Colombia’s security forces on Sunday arrested a FARC commander who has been sentenced for the 1996 killing of a senator and is accused of taking part in the kidnapping of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt. The...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 12, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and Japan’s Primer Minister Yoshihiko Noda signed an investment protection agreement Monday. According to Santos, who is in Japan to improve economic ties with one of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 11, 2011 | News
At least three soldiers were killed and one was injured Sunday when accidentally detonating a landmine in the north-Colombian Norte de Santander department. According to media reports, the soldiers were patroling near the town...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 11, 2011 | News
After three months of relative drought, heavy rains returned to Colombia Saturday, causing flooding in all major cities and disrupting the country’s infrastructure. All this while the country’s authorities say they...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 10, 2011 | News
Ecuador’s foreign minister took distance from a regional court’s order to arrest six high Colombian security officials for the 2008 cross-border attack in which FARC commander “Raul Reyes” and 25 others...
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