Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 18, 2011 | News
Captured drug lord Daniel Rendon Herrera, alias “Don Mario,” on Monday was sentenced to 17 years in jail for the murder of a lawyer in 2003. According to a judge in the central Colombian city of Villavicencio,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 18, 2011 | News
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC may benefit from the recent killing of neo-paramilitary drug lord “Cuchillo,” newspaper El Espectador reported on Monday. According to the newspaper, the death of Pedro...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 18, 2011 | News
Former Bogota mayor and current prominent Green Party member Luis Eduardo Garzon will appear before prosecutors to explain his alleged corruption when granting public works in the capital. Garzon’s interrogation is part of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 18, 2011 | News
Two special congress commissions on Monday approved the state of emergency declared by President Juan Manuel Santos in early December to deal with 2010’s catastrophic rainy season. According to the president of the House...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 17, 2011 | Lite
Padre Chucho, the Catholic priest that advised Colombian housewives on exorcism, cheating and other pressing moral issues, has apparently been taken off the air by television network RCN. “Cura para el alma” (Cure...
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