Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 1, 2011 | News
Colombian President Santos is likely to grant controversial ex-Senator Piedad Cordoba a key role in possible peace talks with leftist guerrilla groups, a high government official told Colombian radio. In an interview with La FM,...
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A carpenter from the north Colombian city of Barrancabermeja hopes to draw attention to victims of last year’s rainy season by floating 300 miles down the country’s largest river on a chair. The 52-year-old Gonzalo...
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A man killed five people and injured at least ten others after a bar fight escalated in a village in the south-west Colombia. According to several media, the man indiscriminately opened fire at a bar in the village of Tuquerres,...
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U.S. embassy officials in Honduras suspected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of using Venezuelan oil supplies to pressure now-ousted President Manuel Zelaya to explicitly say Colombian guerrilla organization FARC is not a...
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A former governor of the northern Colombian department of Santander was barred from holding public office for 20 years on Monday after the inspector general ruled that the politician had ties to paramilitary death squads....
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