Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 22, 2011 | News
Demobilized and extradited paramilitary chief “Don Berna” has told Colombian prosecutors that a former deputy director of intelligence service DAS was a member of paramilitary organization AUC, newspaper El...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 21, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera will travel to Caracas next week to meet with his Venezuelan counterpart Carlos Jose Mata Figueroa to discuss the weak border security. According to Rivera, the meeting is to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 21, 2011 | News
The Colombian congressional commission investigating former President Alvaro Uribe for his alleged role in the illegal wiretapping of government opponents must be carried out publicly, a Bogota court ruled. Uribe is being...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 21, 2011 | News
Colombian coalition party De La U on Thursday proposes to extend the presidential term from four to five years. According to Representative to the House Wilson Gomez, four years are not enough for a government to carry out its...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 21, 2011 | News
Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon said Thursday that if the U.S. congress decides not to ratify a free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, the country’s government will not “sit down and cry.”...
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