Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | News
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe knew about the illegal wiretapping of the Supreme Court by state intelligence agency DAS, a former intelligence official said Thursday. According to William Romero, the DAS’...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | Lite
Colombian weekly JetSet published photos of President Juan Manuel Santos 28 years before taking Colombia’s most important job, showing a handsome, very curly, smiley and mustach-y JuanMa. The photos were taken by Rodrigo...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | News
Readers of Colombia Reports have donated nearly $3,000 for a Medellin project to provide food to children of displaced families. The project, “Angeles de Medellin,” is run by American Mark Kaseman, who has been...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | News
Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday approved “in record time” a bill that seeks to end the judicial limbo of thousands of demobilized paramilitary fighters. The government, confronted with the Constitutional...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | Economy
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the extension of a preferential trade deal that allows the duty-free import of many Colombian products. “The overwhelming vote in favor of the extension of the Andean...
Read More