Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 1, 2011 | News
FARC rebels have released five oil workers of U.S. company Occidental Petroleum Corporation who had been kidnapped on Friday in the east of Colombia, a senior army official told reporters. The five were kidnapped early Friday...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | News
The policies of President Juan Manuel Santos are approved by 71% of Colombians, a poll released on Sunday showed. According to the poll, carried out among little over 1,000 people by Ipsos Napoleon Franco in the country’s...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | zSports
The world’s fastest marathon runner, Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai, won the Bogota Half Marathon Sunday. The 29-year-old Mutai clocked the course record time of one hour, two minutes and 20 second, finishing two minutes and 20...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | News
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe has paid a visit to his former agriculture minister who is behind bars awaiting trial for allegedly embezzling $25 million in state subsidies. According to radio station RCN, Uribe...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | News
Medellin police said Sunday they have arrested a 17-year-old female suspect of at least five homicides. The same girl was arrested a week and a half before, but had apparently escaped. According to a press release, “La...
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