Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 23, 2011 | News
The Colombian army will investigate allegations that Colombian mercenaries working as military contractors in the United Arab Emirates were trained in Colombian military training camps with weapons seized from Colombian illegal...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 22, 2011 | News
Victims of illegal wiretapping by Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS announced Sunday they will sue Panama for granting political asylum to DAS director Maria Del Pilar Hurtado, who is charged with ordering the wiretaps....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 22, 2011 | News
An angry mob set fire and killed an assassin and seriously injured his partner Saturday after the two had assassinated a mechanic in the east if the north Colombian city of Barranquilla. The angry crowd was able to get a hold of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 22, 2011 | News
Recent guerrilla violence in the south-west Colombian Cauca department is due to the FARC’s attempt to recover an important drug route from central Colombia to the Pacific, said the governor Saturday. According to governor...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 22, 2011 | News
A Danish clothing company convicted for financing Colombian rebel group FARC will receive money from the leftist Danish Enhedslisten (EL) party, its members ruled. The money is meant to compensate the company...
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