Posted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 19, 2012 | News
Colombian police confiscated luxurious properties and assets valued at over $40 million inherited by drug lord “Mechas” from the infamous king-pin Carlos Lehder. Police seized 161 “property assets” in 10...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 19, 2012 | News
Colombian authorities caught FARC guerrillas shipping cocaine from the country’s west coast. According to newspaper El Espectador, FARC guerrillas were found in an encampment allegedly used as a cocaine shipment point in...
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FARC criticized the Land Restitution Law only because it takes away from their “banner of propaganda,” said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday. In the opening statements of the peace negotiations that...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 18, 2012 | Culture
A book written by former president Alvaro Uribe has currently been the most sold non-fiction book in Colombia. Uribe’s book “No Lost Causes” has allegedly reached the non-fiction top seller spot according to...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Oct 18, 2012 | News
Three people were killed in Medellin as a result of the “gold wars” that plague Colombia’s central northwestern Antioquia department. While on the way to his brother Hernan Torres’ funeral on Wednesday,...
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