Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 14, 2011 | News
Armed men on Thursday killed the grandson of the mayor of a south Colombian town in a failed attempt to kidnap the mayor’s daughter. According to several media reports, the 16-year old boy died when the group of armed men...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 14, 2011 | News
Colombian rebel group FARC have recruited at least 60 minors from Panama, one of the alleged recruits said on Panamian television. In an interview with Panamian television network TVN, the boy said he had been recruited from the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 14, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Thursday it has registered 173,183 homicides allegedly committed by members of the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC. According to the website of the PG...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 13, 2011 | News
Criminal gangs like the Rastrojos or those that emerged from paramilitary organization AUC are a “new enemy” of the Colombian authorities, the country’s Interior and Justice Minister told national radio. In an...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 13, 2011 | Lite
Doctors in Colombia’s coastal city of Cartagena successfully operated on a man who for undisclosed reasons had a beer bottle shoved up his rectum. According to a Thursday report by local newspaper El Universal, the 62-year...
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