Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 17, 2010 | Lite
This year’s Miss Colombia beauty pageant was fixed by its director who had an obvious preference for winner, Valle del Cauca representative Catalina Robayo, says a former Miss. Last year’s beauty queen from the Valle...
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One of the extradited directors of Colombian pyramid scheme DMG is willing to accept money laundering charges in exchange for a lower sentence. The lawyers of William Suarez, currently awaiting trial in New York, wrote a letter...
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Kidnappings in Colombia are on the rise following 10 years of steady decline, according to official statistics released Monday. According to a report by Fondelibertad, a defense agency in charge of monitoring kidnappings in the...
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Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday turned down the Intelligence Act proposed by former President Alvaro Uribe to strengthen the authorities’ intelligence and counterintelligence operations. The court ruled...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 16, 2010 | News
Colombia’s Congress threatens to strike amid a clash with the country’s interior and justice minister over a delay in debates on anti-corruption measures. Congress President Armando Benedetti proposed to the...
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