Posted by Edward Fox | Mar 29, 2011 | News
Colombia says the ambassador to the OAS, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, will not be replaced, despite reports Monday stating otherwise. In a statement released late on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said, “The Colombian government has...
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Former paramilitary leader Aldides de Jesus Durango, alias “Rene,” was sentenced to 24 years on Monday for the murder of 31 people, Spanish news agency EFE reported. The prosecutor in the case stated that Rene, in...
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Three Navy personnel died on Monday during a fire on a gunboat in the southwest Colombia department of Putumayo, reports El Espectador. According to authorities, the fire apparently broke out in the engine room of the boat in...
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Colombia’s Prosecutor General Viviane Morales formally charged on Monday all three directors of the construction conglomerate the Nule Group in the ongoing investigation into a Bogota corruption scandal, Semana reports....
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A landslide in the city of Manizales, in Colombia’s coffee region, has destroyed nine homes, Caracol Radio reported Monday. The disaster occurred in the western part of the city, when over 280,000 cubic feet of earth fell,...
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