Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2011 | News
Former Senator Piedad Cordoba wants President Juan Manuel Santos to authorize her to talk to the FARC and mediate a political way out of Colombia’s 45-year-long armed conflict between state and leftist rebels. In an...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos does not rule out his government will support the legalization of the consumption of illicit drugs if beneficial to the reduction in crime. “It is a possibility we can discuss. I am...
Read MorePosted 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...
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