Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 10, 2010 | News
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group the FARC is down to 7,000 fighters, the country’s defense minister said on Wednesday. According to Caracol Radio, the figure is based on analysis of content from the computers of...
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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....
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