Bogota joins Miss Colombia race
While some of the country’s departments have already elected their contestants for the 2011 Miss Colombia beauty pageant, Bogota’s beauties are still in the running to officially become the capital’s most...
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Santos admits deterioration of security situation in Colombia
Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday admitted the security situation in Colombia has deteriorated since his election as president exactly a year ago. The president made the statement in an early-morning interview on one of the...
Read MoreColombia arrests alleged Venezuelan narco
Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
Colombian authorities said Monday they have arrested a prominent Venezuelan drug trafficker who had an outstanding international arrest warrant against him. The suspect, Julian Hernando Diaz Porras, was arrested in Norte de...
Read MoreSantos’, Uribe’s party in crisis: Congress President
Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Congress President and prominent member of coalition leader Partido de la U, Armando Benedetti, says the party of President Juan Manuel Santos and former President Alvaro Uribe is in crisis and faces a defeat in...
Read MoreWiretap victims seek to interrogate Uribe directly
Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
Victims of illegal wiretapping carried out by Colombia’s state intelligence agency DAS have asked a judge to allow them to interrogate former President Alvaro Uribe while he is investigated for his alleged role in the...
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