Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 10, 2010 | News
Colombia’s opposition Green Party, whose candidate made it to the second round in this year’s presidential elections, on Tuesday said it supports 80% of the policies proposed by the government of President Juan...
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The United States ambassador to Colombia says his government is “happy” that the people of California voted against the legalization of marijuana in their state. “The U.S. government opposes proposition 19, so...
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Colombia on Tuesday rejected media reports that U.N. refugee agency UNHCR claims that the country has the world’s largest number of people displaced by violence. According to Accion Social, the presidential agency in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 9, 2010 | From the editor
After a somewhat displeased reader sent me an email telling me to move to Venezuela if I didn’t like Colombia, I got to thinking about what exactly I am doing here. The email wasn’t very long or shocking....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 9, 2010 | News
Russia will this week release former Israeli special forces commander Yair Klein, who is convicted in Colombia for training the Medellin cartel and paramilitary groups, his lawyer told Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post. Klein...
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