Posted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 24, 2012 | News
Members of drug trafficking organizations are increasingly turning themselves in, said the head prosecutor of the organized crime unit of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday. Prosecutor Luis Gonzalez...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 23, 2012 | News
A $100 million drug trial will start in 2013 in Colombia’s central northwestern Antioquia department where more people suffer from early onset Alzheimer’s in the community than anywhere else in the world. The...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 23, 2012 | News
Monday’s surrender of gang members of the “Rastrojos” crime syndicate results in the seizure of numerous arms and 17 arrests. After more information was revealed from Monday’s demobilization, when it was...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 23, 2012 | News
Colombian and U.S. authorities on Monday confiscated 1.23 tons of cocaine estimated to be worth $30 million, on a high-speed boat near the island of Serrana in the idyllic San Andres archipelago. After receiving an alert from...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 23, 2012 | Economy
Almost $193 million dollars in environmental damages is to be paid by the controversial Quimbo hydroelectric plant in Colombia’s western Huila department, reported media Tuesday. A six-month investigation by Deputy...
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