Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 6, 2011 | Lite
Volunteers of Colombia’s Red Cross found a tiger outfit, stained thongs and a wedding dress among goods that were donated for victims of floods that have devastated large parts of the country. “What use is a wedding...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 6, 2011 | News
Colombia Humanitaria, the organization in charge of receiving donations for the 2.3 million victims of floods caused by last year’s rainy season, received $8.5 million in donations over the past ten days. According to RCN...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 6, 2011 | News
A group of armed men kidnapped and killed four people in the northern Colombian department of Cordoba, police said Wednesday. According to Cartagena newspaper El Universal, the group of 15 armed men killed their first victim on...
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Colombian prosecutors have accused a man in connection with a car bombing that wounded nine people and damaged buildings in Bogota last August. A statement from prosecutors says Edilson Moreno Barragan is “one of those...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 5, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the immediate release of $527 million to help victims of floods that have devastated the north of Colombia. The money will be available Thursday for the departments that are hit...
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