Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 20, 2011 | News
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe told politicial supporters Wednesday he will not run for Bogota mayor later this year. According to newspaper El Tiempo, the former president met with members of Congress, former...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 20, 2011 | News
Colombia’s government extended an alert to 13 of the country’s 32 department over the violence committed by drug gangs and groups formed from the ashes of the now-defunct paramilitary AUC. The departments on alert...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2011 | News
Colombian police Wednesday claimed they seized 7.5 tons of marijuana belonging to the country’s largest rebel group FARC. According to the police, the major drugs haul took place in the central Meta department. The drugs,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2011 | News
The Colombian Navy is looking for nine people who went missing after their boat crashed with a tugboat on the Magdalena river Wednesday. A Navy spokesperson said Wednesday that search efforts are being hampered by the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2011 | News
Colombian police said Wednesday they arrested 2,403 suspected criminals in a nation-wide offensive to increase security in the country’s biggest cities. According to the website of the National Police, the operation...
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