Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 21, 2011 | News
The Colombian army had some 100 men covertly operating in Venezuela to look for one of the FARC’s most prominent leaders, “Ivan Marquez,” weekly Semana revealed Sunday based on a 2005 diplomatic cable. In the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 20, 2011 | News
United States military aid to Colombia serves more to enrich private defense companies than to help the Andean nation, said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an interview published Sunday. In a video-interview with Colombian...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 20, 2011 | News
An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale caused panic the south-west of Colombia Sunday, but left no damage or injuries. The earthquake occurred at 8:30 AM was felt in Cali and several towns in the departments of Valle...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 20, 2011 | News
An airplane flying from Medellin to Monteria was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday after one of the engines shut down. According to several media, the incident happened 20 minutes after the Aires airplane had taken off...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 20, 2011 | News
Authorities have raised the number of fatal victims of a bus accident in the central Colombian Cundinamarca department to 21, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. According to the police, the brakes of a bus stopped working and...
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