Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 7, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos should “take advantage of the opportunity” and start peace talks with the FARC, the guerrilla group said in a press statement seen by Spanish press agency EFE Sunday. “If...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 6, 2011 | Economy
Workers of Cerrejon, Colombia’s largest coal mine, have reached a deal with the mine’s directors on an increase in wages and called off the planned strike. Igor Diaz, the president of the Sintracarbon union, told RCN...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 6, 2011 | News
Guards of the maximum security ward of Bogota’s La Picota prison fear for their lives after the murder of one of their colleagues, Caracol Radio reported Sunday. According to the radio station, several sources confirmed...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 5, 2011 | News
Authorities on Saturday arrested eight former policemen and one former army sergeant for alleged ties to drug trafficking organizations. According to newspaper El Espectador, eight former policemen were arrested in the south...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 5, 2011 | News
Approximately 80 Bogota merchants who vandalized a station of the Colombian capital’s mass transit system Transmilenio could be charged with terrorism, said the Bogota Police commissioner, General Francisco Patiño...
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