Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 16, 2011 | News
Colombia’s national indigenous organization said Saturday that 122 members of indigenous peoples have been murdered and ten disappeared in 2010. According to a report by the organization given to french press agency AFP,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 16, 2011 | News
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC have taken up the illegal mining of gold to finance their armed conflict with the state, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday. According to the President, emails found on the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 15, 2011 | News
Eleven suspected members of the neo-paramilitary “Urabeños” gang on Friday surrendered to authorities in the north Colombian department of Cordoba. The alleged gang members surrendered themselves to members of the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 15, 2011 | News
Colombian authorities on Friday arrested a suspected top member of drug gang “Los Rastrojos,” fifteen minutes after he was released from prison. Marlon Valencia Portocarrera, alias “La Ketty,” was set...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 14, 2011 | News
Angie Sanclemente, the Colombian model who was arrested for drug trafficking in Argentina, was refused bail Thursday and has to await trial in prison. A Buenos Aires court refused the Colombian beauty’s bail request...
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