Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 24, 2011 | News
Four Bogota cops were arrested for allegedly selling drugs and counterfeit euros from a police post in the south of the Colombian capital. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the policemen used their post in the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 24, 2011 | News
A Colombian judge Monday ordered the release of ten soldiers who allegedly stole $275 thousand and killed a surviving guerrilla after raiding a FARC camp. The soldiers took part in a February 2010 raid on a camp of the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 24, 2011 | News
The chairman of Colombian socialist party Polo Democratico, Clara Lopez, was added to the shortlist of candidate Bogota mayors Monday after one of the candidates withdrew over her ties to suspended mayor Samuel Moreno. The...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 23, 2011 | News
The Accusations Committee of Colombia’s Congress on Monday appointed a successor of the representative that resigned from the investigation against former President Alvaro Uribe’s alleged role in the illegal...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 23, 2011 | News
Bogota airport authorities found $2.8 million in the luggage of a Mexican man entering Colombia, the police said Monday. According to the authorities, the money came from the powerful Mexican Sinaloa cartel and was seized Sunday...
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