Posted by Brandon Barrett | Mar 23, 2012 | zSports
Bogota’s Millonarios soccer club and Spanish side Atletico Madrid are set to face-off after a press conference from the Colombian capital Friday officially confirmed the May 16 match. The contest, to be held in...
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Members of Colombia’s Congress asked President Juan Manuel Santos to consider ending the country’s compulsory military service law. There is a deep need to “professionalize” Colombia’s military by...
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Heavy storms in a central Colombian village have left one dead and 17 homeless. The body of a 76-year-old woman washed up in the village of Morelia, Risaralda Department, despite rescue attempts by her four children. The storm,...
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A former paramilitary commander Thursday testified in a Colombian court that multinational mining company Drummond paid the AUC to protect its railroad. Hundreds of victims are suing the coal mining company for its alleged role...
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Two Colombian men were indicted by Swiss authorities on charges of smuggling 660kg of cocaine into the country. The Colombians were allegedly part of a drug smuggling network that disguised the drug in boxes of bananas, pushing...
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