Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 13, 2011 | News
Police on Thursday and Friday have arrested at least thirty members of drug trafficking organizations in central and north Colombia, several media reported. According to a report by Caracol Radio, 13 arrests took place near the...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday that two of the three candidates on the socialist party Polo Democratico’s shortlist to replace suspended Bogota mayor Samuel Moreno could be rejected for judicial...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 13, 2011 | Culture
Dolores Salinas, one of the singers of “Las Alegres Ambulancias,” an iconic group from the Caribbean town of San Basilio de Palenque, died Thursday at 78. The iconic Palenquera was one of the most famous Bullerengue...
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Seven of the ten people who recently were kidnapped from a holiday home in the northern Antioquia town of Sopetran have been executed, police said Thursday. Three women who were part of the group were released. According to...
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A priest and university chaplain died of seven stab wounds as thieves tried to steal his cell phone in the west of Bogota, Thursday evening, local media reported. Father Gustavo Garcia, chaplain at Minuto de Dios University, was...
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