Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 25, 2011 | News
Conservative Party politician and former Congress President Luis Humberto Gomez Gallo on Wednesday was sentenced to nine years in jail for his ties to paramilitary death squads. Colombia’s Supreme Court considered it...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 25, 2011 | News
A Bogota man set fire to his stripper girlfriend’s Bogota motel room Wednesday morning after finding out she makes her money as a stripper. According to witnesses, the man found his girlfriend stripping in one of...
Read MorePosted 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...
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