Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 17, 2011 | News
Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to violence in Colombia while leading the outdoor Palm Sunday Mass on St. Peter’s Square in Rome. The religious leader, speaking before tens of thousands of faithful, said he asks God...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 16, 2011 | News
Colombia on Friday rejected a decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to maintain the country on its human rights blacklist and called for the OAS body to analyze advances made “in the field.”. “I...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 16, 2011 | News
The website of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was down for three hours on Friday due to attacks on the website by hackers, the website said after being available to the public again. “Since 2:00 in the afternoon...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 15, 2011 | News
At least five people died and four were injured Thursday when a truck crashed into a number of houses and shops in the central Colombian city of Pereira. According to several media, the brakes of the truck malfunctioned as it...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 13, 2011 | News
Colombia’s interior and justice minister on Wednesday announced that his government will extradite alleged drug lord Walid Makled to his home country and not to the U.S., who also sought the Venezuelan’s extradition....
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