Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 2, 2011 | News
Large parts of Colombia’s second largest city Medellin have been without running water for ten days after a landslide destroyed part of the city’s water supply network. According to several media, 40 of the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 2, 2011 | News
Sweden-based news website Anncol, best known for it’s pro-FARC stance and publisher of many FARC statements over the years, has criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for deporting an editor of the website to...
Read MorePosted 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...
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