Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 16, 2011 | Lite
Colombian pop diva Shakira has sent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a guitar with her autograph, the Venezuelan Minister of Information said Sunday. Minister Andres Izarra announced the gift on his Twitter account, attaching a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 16, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Liberal Party condemned the Sunday assassination of two of their candidates for the city council of a southern town, near the Ecuadorean border. In a press statement on the political party’s website,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 15, 2011 | News
In an ongoing exchange of snides between President Juan Manuel Santos and his predecessor Alvaro Uribe over whether Colombia is facing an “armed conflict” or a “terrorist threat,” Uribe said Sunday there...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 15, 2011 | News
Two Liberal Party candidates for the city council of a town in the southwest of Colombia were assassinated Sunday. According to Caracol Radio, the two were shot dead while meeting in a house in Valle del Guamuez, a town 15 miles...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 15, 2011 | News
High profile crime in Colombia in the first four months of 2011 went down 11% compared to the same period last year, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday. “Through the consolidation of these crimes, homicides,...
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