Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2011 | News
Brazilian helicopters carrying mediator Piedad Cordoba and Red Cross delegates leaves the airport of Ibague Sunday morning for the last of three hostage release operations. The mission took to the southern-Colombian jungles...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2011 | News
Mexico’s mediator suspected the FARC and the Cuban government of having frustrated peace talks held between rebel group ELN and the government of Alvaro Uribe, diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Saturday showed....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 12, 2011 | News
Heavily armed men murdered four adults and one child in a farmhouse in the south-Colombian Putumayo department. The massacre took place in the municipality of San Miguel, some 8 miles north of the border with Ecuador. Putumayo...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 12, 2011 | News
The FARC will not release two, but three hostages on Sunday, mediator Piedad Cordoba announced on her Twitter. According to the former senator, the guerrillas will not just release police major Guillermo Solorzano and soldier...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 12, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Saturday fiercely criticized this week’s releases of hostages by the FARC, calling them an ” absurd media show.” The president was mostly disturbed by the release of...
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