Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 29, 2010 | News
The country’s attempts to improve ties with its neighbor Venezuela should not affect Bogota’s “broad agenda” with Washington, Colombia’s Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin told national radio on...
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The number of fatalities from landslides and floods caused by heavy rains in Colombia is continuing to grow. According to authorities, since March 162 people have died in the extreme weather conditions. In their weekly report on...
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Whistleblower website Wikileaks got its hands on 2,416 documents sent from or to the United States embassy in Bogota. None of the world media that were given access to information from a cache of over 250,000 cables on Sunday...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 28, 2010 | News
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC returned to old “hit and run” guerrilla tactics, which may result in the death of “about a thousand” members of the security forces this year, a Colombian...
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An independent “Truth Commission” will study the cases of 17,0000 demobilized paramilitaries after Colombia’s constitutional court sank the suspension of prosecution of the former AUC members, newspaper El...
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