Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 21, 2010 | News
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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 21, 2010 | News
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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 20, 2010 | News
460 Colombian soldiers and policemen were killed and over 2,000 injured in combat with illegal armed groups so far this year, President Juan Manuel Santos revealed Monday. The President took part in an event at the Presidential...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 20, 2010 | Economy
Colombia’s Vice President Angelino Garzon on Monday called the country’s employers’ proposal to raise minimum wage with three per cent “very low and unfair.” Instead, the Vice President supported...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 20, 2010 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday his government is waiting on signs of the FARC to move forward with operations that should lead to the unilateral release of five FARC captives. “We have said it in every...
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