Posted by Edward Fox | Mar 23, 2011 | News
An alleged FARC attack on a police station in the department of Nariño left one soldier dead while wounding four others, El Espectador reported Wednesday. The attack occurred in the rural area of Rosario when the supposed rebels...
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Several officials from Colombia’s Ministry of Defense privately suspected corruption in the process that saw former Navy Admiral Gabriel Arango Bacci acquitted in 2009 of all charges relating to ties with drug traffickers,...
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Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday against Chiquita Brands International for their alleged role in supporting the massacre and torture of 931 people in Colombia’s banana growing region. The two cases, filed before a federal...
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The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court has called to trial former congressman Jose Aristides Andrade for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local official in northern Colombia nearly 20 years ago, Caracol Radio...
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The first group of Colombians living in Japan were flown back to Bogota early Wednesday morning after the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the Asian state on March 11. The group of 139 Colombians, along...
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