Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 17, 2010 | News
Colombia announces it will ask Israel to extradite Yair Klein, a mercenary convicted by a Colombian court for training death squads from the Medellin cartel and paramilitary organizations. According to Interior and Justice...
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Panama President Ricardo Martinelli admitted Thursday that his country is reviewing several political asylum requests from Colombian former government officials who are being investigated for crimes in their country. In an...
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A former top official of state intelligence agency DAS was sentenced on Thursday to eight years and four months in jail for the illegal wiretapping of government opponents. With the ruling, the Bogota judge confirms the jail...
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Crime in Colombia went down 14% in 2010 compared to the previous year, the country’s defense minister said Thursday. “In the course of the government of ‘Democratic Prosperity,’ we are registering a 14%...
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The urban approval rating of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is 72% according to a survey held in Colombia’s five largest cities. The approval rating measured by pollster Gallup is considerably lower than that of...
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