Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 13, 2010 | News
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says U.S. officials told him they had been warned that he would lead a coup if the Constitutional Court did not approve his second re-election. In an interview with newspaper El...
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Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair praised Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in a letter published in newspaper El Tiempo. Blair, who is a personal friend of Colombia’s president, wrote that Santos will be able to...
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Rescue workers in Bello, a town bordering Medellin, said Sunday that they have recovered the bodies of 63 victims of last week’s landslide, while 28 people are still missing. According to operation coordinator Frayden...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday announced his government will use $531 million from the 2011 national budget to help the victims of this year’s rainy season and repair damaged public goods. Santos made the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 11, 2010 | News
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe told a U.S. diplomatic mission that the threat posed by his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in Latin America was comparable to that of Hitler in Europe in the 1930s, leaked...
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