Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 25, 2011 | News
Rebels of the FARC have attacked six villages in the southwest of Colombia over the weekend, local media reported Sunday. According to newspaper El Tiempo, one soldier was killed when the FARC launched a self-made missile at a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 25, 2011 | Economy
Colombia needs a drastic rural reform if the country wants to further develop, decrease its high inequality rate and diminish the country’s violence, the United Nations says. According to the latest report by the United...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | News
Authorities in the south of Colombia arrested an alleged member of the FARC, accused to be the main medic of the guerrilla group’s Southern Bloc. According to the authorities, the arrested Heberto Sanchez, alias...
Read MorePosted 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...
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