Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 7, 2010 | News
Rescue workers in Bello, Antioquia, have so far recovered 30 bodies from the site where a landslide buried 35 houses on Sunday, while 94 people are still missing and feared dead. Ever since the tragedy hit the town that borders...
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The sister of the director of the Prosecutor General’s Office anti-organized crime unit was arrested for her involvement in one of Colombia’s main drug trafficking organizations. According to newspaper El Tiempo,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 7, 2010 | News
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega in 1984 helped Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in exchange for money, according to a leaked diplomatic cable from the U.S. embassy in Manuagua, released by WikiLeaks. In a message sent to the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 7, 2010 | News
Former Press Secretary Cesar Mauricio Velasquez on Monday said he had come “to tell the truth” after being interrogated for his alleged role in the illegal wiretapping of government opponents. Velasquez, current...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 6, 2010 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will cut a visit to New York City short to visit the town of Bello, just north of Medellin, where authorities fear that a landslide killed 145 people. Santos is in New York where he is...
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