Posted by Caitlin Trent | Dec 5, 2012 | News
Colombians, allegedly without political agenda but held together through social networks, are holding a “cacerolazo,” a colloquial term meaning banging pots and pans in protest, against the government of President...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Dec 5, 2012 | War and peace
Dutch FARC guerrilla Tanja Neijmeijer claimed Tuesday that the FARC have no hostages and their guns are “only for defense.” In an interview with Russian news channel RT in Havana, Cuba, guerrilla Tanja Neijmeijer...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Dec 5, 2012 | News
An army operation resulted in the deaths of seven alleged rebels near the Venezuelan border Tuesday night in the search for “Jhon 40,” an accused drug-trafficking FARC commander. In the search for “Jhon...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Dec 5, 2012 | News
New waves of violence have emerged from the fragmentation of Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups and drug cartels, concentrated in Colombia’s central region and Caribbean and Pacific coasts but is present in all...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Trent | Dec 4, 2012 | Cartagena
The English newspaper, The Telegraph, called Cartagena a city with “heart, soul and style,” and a deserving host for the January “Hay Festival” and the Nobel Prize winners that will descend upon the...
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