Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 10, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday approved an emergency decree issued by the government in December to attend the crisis caused by last year’s extended rainy season, El Tiempo reports. Decree 4580 declared...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 10, 2011 | News
Colombia’s most important anti-mafia prosecutor fled the country shortly after reports indicated she was on the hit list of a prominent drug lord. According to several media sources, prosecutor Ana Margarita Duran left the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 8, 2011 | News
One of the 23 hostages who were kidnapped Monday evening and of whom 22 were released Tuesday morning told media their kidnappers released them without apparent military pressure. According to Caracol Radio, the oil...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 6, 2011 | Culture
The Barranquilla carnival, Colombia’s most important cultural event of the year, kicked off Saturday with its traditional Batalla de las Flores (Flower Battle). {japopup type=”image”...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 6, 2011 | News
Three prominent FARC commanders who were reported as killed in combat by the Colombian army are alive, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. According to the newspaper, the three guerrillas, “Albeiro Cordoba,”...
Read More