Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 24, 2011 | News
Colombian authorities recovered a usb-stick that was stolen from an NGO that helps victims of forced displacement to recover their lands. The memory stick contains the names of all victims registered with the NGO. According to...
Read MorePosted 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...
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