Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 18, 2011 | News
Attacks on two villages in the north-Colombian Norte de Santander department left three civilians and an equal number of policemen dead, local media reported Thursday. According to preliminary reports, guerrillas attacked the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 18, 2011 | News
Santiago Uribe, the brother of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe met with assumed dead paramilitary leader Vicente Castaño, AUC commander “El Aleman” testified before court. According to newspaper El...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 17, 2011 | News
Colombia’s armed conflict between the State and the FARC will not be ended militarily, but through peace talks, said the country’s armed forces commander Thursday. “It’s not about killing them all,”...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 17, 2011 | Lite
Colombian reggaeton singer J. Balvin is getting married, he told several media. The Medellin-born singer told newspaper El Tiempo that he proposed marriage after eight years of dating his girlfriend Diana Osorio on March 8...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 17, 2011 | Culture
Colombia’s most famous sculptor and painter Fernando Botero opened an exhibition on violence in his home country in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia. The traveling exhibition is called “The Pain of Colombia”...
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