Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 2, 2011 | News
Colombian indigenous minors are kidnapped to be forced to work as prostitutes, indigenous organization ONIC said Sunday. According to ONIC chairman Luis Evelis Andrade, there have been several cases of girls between the age of...
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Venezuela will extradite a captured commander of guerrilla group ELN “in the coming days,” the website of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos reported after a meeting with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos briefly met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while both were attending the inauguration of Brazil’s new President Dilma Rousseff Saturday. According to the website of the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 1, 2011 | News
The five hostages the FARC promised to release will be home before the end of this month, mediator Piedad Cordoba said Saturday. “The new year message to those who are about to be surrendered is very positive. We are only...
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The Colombian army said Friday that in 2010 it had killed 483 guerrillas, arrested 5,045 members of illegal armed groups, while 1,690 members of these groups voluntarily demobilized. In the army’s year-end report, it said...
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