Posted by Edward Fox | Mar 16, 2011 | News
The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that will see the granting of extraordinary powers to the government for six months to divide and restructure ministries and state agencies, El Tiempo reports. The main focus point of the bill,...
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FARC commander “Oliver Solarte,” who was killed Monday by Colombian armed forces in Putumayo, was one of the group’s key drugs and arms smugglers and a link to Mexican drug cartels, President Juan Manuel Santos...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Mar 15, 2011 | News
A WikiLeaks cable says that Jose Obdulio Gaviria, then-adviser to ex-President Alvaro Uribe, secretly met with DAS officials in 2009 during a peak period in the wiretaps scandal, contradicting his public denial at the time....
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President Juan Manuel Santos gives his backing to National Police Chief Oscar Naranjo after a former adviser to his predecessor Alvaro Uribe attacked the officer Sunday over revelations in a series of WikiLeaks cables, Caracol...
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An ex-paramilitary fighter has claimed that part of his former group’s funding came from the looting of emerald mines in the department of Boyaca with the full knowledge of the mine’s owner, “emerald...
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