Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 30, 2011 | News
Five workers of U.S. oil company Occidental Petroleum Corporation have been kidnapped in the east of Colombia, the company said Saturday. According to the company, the kidnapping took place Friday evening in the eastern...
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Former President Alvaro Uribe’s then chief of staff was sent to jail Saturday after victims of illegal wiretapping by state intelligence agency DAS successfully appealed the Supreme Court’s decision to allow him to...
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Three soldiers have been killed by members of guerrilla group ELN, the Colombian army announced Friday. According to the army, a roadside bomb was detonated at the time the soldiers’ armored vehicle, on patrol in the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 30, 2011 | News
The recently killed drug lord “Sebastian” spent $140,000 a month in bribing police and city officials in his area of operations in the north of Colombia, his two former bodyguards told a judge Friday. According to a...
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A Barranquilla judge on Friday granted three-day leaves to a former senator who was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail last month for his ties to paramilitary groups. Politician Juan Carlos Martinez is now allowed to...
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