Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
The Bogota comptroller and a House representative from the capital are barred from holding public office for 20 and 15 years respectively for fraudulently granting public contracts. The double sentence is the first in what is...
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More than security issues, the development of infrastructure in Colombia is hindered by corruption, says the infrastructure expert of economic website Business News Americas that is organizing a summit on infrastructure in the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office dismissed 17 soldiers two years after they were convicted for the massacre of 10 members of a police anti-narcotics squad in 2006. The soldiers ambushed and murdered the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
Colombia’s interior and justice minister announced Thursday that illegal armed groups threaten to influence October’s local elections in 300 of Colombia’s 1,099 municipalities. Previously the government had...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
Colombian columnist and political analyst Claudia Lopez on Thursday won a lawsuit filed against her by former President Ernesto Samper, who accused her of slander. The former president sued the journalist last month for a 2006...
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