Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 19, 2011 | News
Juliana Sosa Toro, the Colombian girlfriend of Mexican drug trafficker “El J.J.” was released from her Mexican jail Monday after being held in relation to last year’s attempted murder of Paraguayan soccer...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 19, 2011 | News
Guerrillas of the FARC have kidnapped two soldiers from village 40 miles southwest of Medellin, the army said in a press release Monday. The alleged kidnapping took place on the in El Limon, a town in the south of the Antioquia...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 19, 2011 | News
Colombia’s prosecutor general on Monday announced she will soon file more charges against allegedly corrupt government officials and beneficiaries of fraudulently granted agricultural subsidies. Nevertheless, prosecutor...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 17, 2011 | News
The former commander of the Colombian army, Oscar Gonzalez Peña, made “obvious” efforts to “frustrate” internal investigations into the killing of hundreds of civilians by members of the army, a...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 17, 2011 | News
Colombia’s National Police said Saturday it has arrested one of the country’s ten most wanted criminals. Hector Efren Meneses Yela, alias “Guara” or “Rodrigo” is suspected of being one of the...
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