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 MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
A mayoral candidate has been kidnapped by alleged FARC rebels in the central Colombian Meta department, authorities said Sunday. According to armed forces commander Admiral Edgar Cely, the candidate for the Partido de la U in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
One of the 17 victims of a car bomb that exploded in the southwestern Colombian city of Popayan Saturday has died of his injuries. Authorities said Sunday that leftist rebels of the ELN are responsible for the terrorist attack....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 19, 2011 | News
Former Bogota mayor Enrique Peñalosa has a comfortable lead in a poll released Sunday ahead of the capital’s local elections in October. The poll, carried out by Datexco for newspaper El Tiempo and W Radio, showed that...
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