Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 22, 2011 | News
Colombian judicial authorities sentence no more than 12 of every 100 arrested drug gang suspects. The rest are set free because of a shortage in prosecutors and judges, the country’s defense minister said Tuesday....
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Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe lashed out at Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel Thursday, calling the Argentine a promoter of terrorism. Perez Esquivel is one of the participants in a forum on peace in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 22, 2011 | News
Colombia’s interior and justice minister announced that 63 convicted members of the security forces will be transferred from military compounds to civilian prisons. The 40 policemen and 23 soldiers have all been convicted...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 22, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Defense Minister said Tuesday authorities have arrested a FARC guerrilla held responsible for the 2003 kidnapping of three American military contractors. According to Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 22, 2011 | News
Former Senator Piedad Cordoba on Monday showed a video of FARC commander “Alfonso Cano” on the first day of a forum on peace in Colombia in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. In the video, not made available on...
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