Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 21, 2010 | News
Colombia asked the United States to install aerial defense systems to protect the country from “external threats, particularly Venezuela.” In a cable sent by then-Ambassador to Bogota William Brownfield on November...
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Computers seized at the camp of assumed dead FARC commander “Fabian Ramirez” reveal ties between the guerrillas and the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Tuesday. Photos that were found on the...
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Colombia’s Comptroller General ordered the seizure of assets of Bogota mayor Samuel Moreno, who is investigated for corruption. Comptroller General Sandra Morelli also ordered the investigation of Bogota’s former...
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Colombian police arrested 143 foreigners suspected of drug trafficking in 2010, counter-narcotics chief Cesar Augusto Pinzon told Spanish press agency Efe Monday. According to the police chief, among the foreigners are “31...
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A top member of the Rastrojos drug gang wanted by U.S. authorities has been arrested by Colombian police and prosecutors, working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said. Jerson Enrique Camacho Cedeño, a...
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