Posted by Edward Fox | Mar 21, 2011 | News
Jean Pierre Gontard, the former Swiss mediator in FARC peace talks with the Colombian government, offered asylum in Switzerland to family members of “Alfonso Cano” and “Raul Reyes” during negotiations...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Mar 16, 2011 | News
The Council of State rejects former Senator Piedad Cordoba’s lawsuit claiming that she was unlawfully barred from holding public office for 18 years on the grounds that she had ties to the FARC, Radio Santa Fe reported...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Mar 16, 2011 | News
An official from Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC was jailed for 22 years on Wednesday for extorting prison inmates and falsifying documents, El Espectador reported Wednesday. The official, Luis Enrique Murallas...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Mar 16, 2011 | Economy
Negotiating teams from Colombia and Turkey have begun to discuss a free trade agreement between the two states, Spanish news agency EFE reports. Meetings began on Monday in the Turkish capital of Ankara in what is seen as...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Mar 16, 2011 | News
Six military officials were called to trial Tuesday for the case of an alleged “false positive” killing in 2007, Colombian media reported. The soldiers had been under investigation for the murder of a woman shot in...
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