Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 6, 2010 | News
Rescue workers recovered the bodies of 17 people who were buried when a 50,000 cubic meter landslide destroyed more than 40 houses in Bello, a town just north of Medellin. There are still 128 people missing and feared dead....
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Colombia will ask Venezuela to help fight drug trafficking in the northern region of the countries’ shared border. At a security meeting in the town of Riohacha, Colombian Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera said he will ask...
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Members of an indigenous community from the north Colombian department of Sucre threaten to kill themselves if the national government does not recognize them as a tribe. The group threatens to drink poison if Colombia’s...
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The FARC offer Ecuadorean adolescents money and cell phones to convince them to join the rebel group, an anonymous Ecuadorean boy told newspaper El Universo. “I was going to go voluntarily, nobody asked me to. My friend...
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Some 150 people are feared to be buried under mud and earth after a landslide on Sunday hit the slums of Bello, a town bordering Medellin in the north. A total of 50 houses were buried in what may be deadliest landslide of this...
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