Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 2, 2011 | News
Colombia’s interior and justice minister replaced the director of Bogota’s La Picota prison after ongoing reports of jailed politicians having parties. Minister German Vargas Lleras also warned the politicians who...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 2, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez and Brazilian head of state Dilma Rousseff in Peru later this month. According to Colombia’s Foreign Minister Maria Angela...
Read MorePosted 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,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 1, 2011 | Lite
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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 1, 2011 | News
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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