Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 23, 2011 | News
Venezuela on Sunday claimed it arrested the leader of Colombian neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras” in the northwestern city of Maracaibo. According to Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami, the arrested suspect is...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 23, 2011 | Economy
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Sunday arrived in Paris where he hopes to push French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy to make the G-20 implement measures that stem the appreciation of currencies of emerging markets. Santos...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 23, 2011 | News
Colombian authorities have no idea of the whereabouts of some 5,000 former paramilitary fighters who were part of the massive demobilization of the AUC, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Sunday. According to the newspaper, the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 23, 2011 | News
A ship carrying survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left Japan Sunday for a trip that will take the Peace Boat to Colombia on February 25. The ship will arrive in Cartagena to unload humanitarian aid...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 23, 2011 | News
The Colombian army said on Saturday it killed at least six guerrillas of the FARC’s 6th front in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca. According to military sources that talked to newspaper El Espectador, the...
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