Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 16, 2011 | News
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC have taken up the illegal mining of gold to finance their armed conflict with the state, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday. According to the President, emails found on the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 15, 2011 | News
Eleven suspected members of the neo-paramilitary “Urabeños” gang on Friday surrendered to authorities in the north Colombian department of Cordoba. The alleged gang members surrendered themselves to members of the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 15, 2011 | News
Colombian authorities on Friday arrested a suspected top member of drug gang “Los Rastrojos,” fifteen minutes after he was released from prison. Marlon Valencia Portocarrera, alias “La Ketty,” was set...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 14, 2011 | News
Angie Sanclemente, the Colombian model who was arrested for drug trafficking in Argentina, was refused bail Thursday and has to await trial in prison. A Buenos Aires court refused the Colombian beauty’s bail request...
Read MorePosted 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...
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