Posted by Arron Daugherty | Apr 2, 2012 | News
The operation to release five hostages held by the FARC for more than 12 years has begun despite an initial delay due to rain. The Brazilian helicopter carrying hostage release mediators and representatives of the Red Cross took...
Read MorePosted by Arron Daugherty | Apr 2, 2012 | News
The operation to release five of ten hostages guerrilla group FARC promised to release has been delayed because of rain. The helicopter that will pick up the captive members of the security forces will not be able to take off...
Read MorePosted by Arron Daugherty | Apr 2, 2012 | News
Colombian congressmen Ivan Cepeda and German Navas asked Colombia’s Prosecutor General to investigate the judge who lifted the international arrest warrant for Colombia’s ex-peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo,...
Read MorePosted by Arron Daugherty | Apr 2, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Inspector General banned seven city councillors from office for 18 years after finding them guilty of coercing two colleagues at gunpoint, said local media Friday. According to reports, Oromario Abella, Rafael...
Read MorePosted by Arron Daugherty | Mar 29, 2012 | News
Police captured 15 suspected members of the neoparamilitary drug traffickers the “Urabeños,” in Colombia’s northern department of Cordoba, said local media Thursday. According to reports, authorities captured...
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