Posted by Alice Boyd | Nov 4, 2011 | News
Student protests in Bogota Thursday caused Colombia’s capital city to effectively shut down, as nationwide tens of thousands of students took to the streets to protest against a proposed government bill to reform higher...
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Members of Colombia’s armed forces that are victims of war crimes are not given the same treatment as civilian victims, says a military defense NGO. According to Demil, the attention of both the domestic population and the...
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Colombia’s national police chief, General Oscar Naranjo, was elected Thursday as Interpol’s new vice president for the Americas. General Naranjo was appointed to the international policing organization at...
Read MorePosted by Alice Boyd | Nov 3, 2011 | News
The former director of Colombia’s recently dissolved intelligence agency, DAS, said that the closure of the disgraced organization was inevitable, in an interview with El Espectador. “The DAS needed a complete change...
Read MorePosted by Alice Boyd | Nov 3, 2011 | Lite
Medellin police have captured a man posing as a priest, who had been busy swindling citizens by collecting money for bogus charities. The fake religious leader had been cheating residents in the neighborhood of Niquia, Medellin...
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