Posted 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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 13, 2011 | News
Colombian soldiers raiding a deserted FARC camp in the south of Colombia found a minor who claims to be Ecuadorean. The boy was found by troops of the 4th Division in a camp near the town of Calamar, Guaviare, nearly 300 miles...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 13, 2011 | News
The U.S. will help Colombia improve the living conditions of Afro-Colombians on the Pacific coast, the U.S. embassy in Bogota announced Wednesday. According to a press release, the United States Agency for International...
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