Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 26, 2010 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday the government will continue with the reintegration of 17,000 former paramilitary fighters, despite a recent court ruling that struck down their protection from trial. The...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 25, 2010 | Culture
The Colombian capital of Bogota began a project to make cinema accessible for blind and deaf people. Funded by the local government, the Accessible Cinema project uses specialized subtitles and headsets to make movies...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 25, 2010 | News
Medellin vandals beheaded a statue of the Holy Virgin Mary after stealing it from a shrine in the southern Poblado neighborhood, a local newspaper reports. According to newspaper El Colombiano, people are indignant about the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 25, 2010 | News
Colombia and Chile will form a strategic alliance for bilateral development and will intensify trade between the two countries and Peru, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Chilean counterpart Sebastian Piñera...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 25, 2010 | News
In an exceptionally fierce letter, Colombia’s Inspector General rejected former President Alvaro Uribe’s criticism on the functioning of Colombia’s justice system. In the open letter, Inspector General...
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