Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 9, 2011 | News
Colombian immigration officials held President Juan Manuel Santos’ former spin doctor, Venezuelan Juan Jose Rendon, after finding “irregularities” in the publicist’s passport Tuesday. Rendon was...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 9, 2011 | News
Mediator Piedad Cordoba, members of her Colombians for Peace group and Red Cross employees have left the airport of Villavicencio to pick up the first of five FARC hostages Cordoboa tweeted Wednesday morning. The Brazilian...
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The coalition Liberal Party blamed former President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday for violence caused by neo-paramilitary drug gangs. According to Liberal Party leader Rafael Pardo, the problems authorities are facing in trying to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 8, 2011 | News
One in four Colombians know someone who received money or goods in return for their vote in past elections, according to a poll published Tuesday by an electoral NGO. In the poll by the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) 25.3%...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 8, 2011 | News
Drug gangs in the troubled north-Colombian department of Cordoba are willing to surrender to authorities, the local bishop said Tuesday. According to Monteria bishop Monsignor Julio Cesar Vidal, he received a letter from...
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