Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 1, 2011 | News
Rioters clashed with anti-riot police in Bogota at the end the annual Labor Day demonstration. The violence erupted towards the end of the annual event in which some 10,000 protesters walked from the Plaza de Toros to the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 1, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday called the sentencing to 35 years of an army general for the disappearance of 11 civilians in the 1985 siege of the country’s palace of justice in Bogota...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 30, 2011 | News
A jailed army major who was recently moved to Bogota’s La Picota prison was nearly killed by a fellow-inmate in a drinking binge two weeks ago, newspaper El Tiempo reported Friday. The newspaper cited sources from within...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 28, 2011 | News
The effectiveness of Colombia’s armed forces has “notoriously” dropped, the recently replaced head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the armed forces told media Wednesday. “As a soldier I accept having been...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 28, 2011 | News
Despite a looming arrest warrant against him, Bernardo Moreno, chief of staff under Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe, says he will not seek political asylum. Following news that the country’s prosecutor...
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