Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | Culture
Brad Furman, director of “The Lincoln Lawyer,” is involved in negotiations to make a movie about slain Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, a U.S. magazine reported Saturday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | zSports
Colombia will play its first game in the South American qualifiers for the Brazil 2014 World Cup on October 11 and will not know until October 15, 2013 whether it has qualified, South American soccer federation Conmebol...
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Luis Muriel scored twice to lead Colombia to a convincing 4-1 victory over France on Saturday in a Group A match in the Under-20 World Cup. France went ahead on Gilles Sunu’s goal in the 21st minute, but after that it was...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 30, 2011 | News
Colombian authorities on Saturday arrested a former senator for the second time for his alleged ties to paramilitary groups. Relatives of former senator Jairo Merlano Fernandez told newspaper El Tiempo that the arrest was...
Read MorePosted 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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