Posted by Edward Fox | Apr 28, 2011 | News
Senator Ivan Moreno, arrested earlier on Thursday for his involvement in the Bogota public works corruption scandal, has proclaimed his innocence, Caracol Radio reports. In the first statement to be released since his arrest,...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Apr 28, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Technical Investigation Team (CTI) has captured a FARC leader who had escaped from custody 11 years earlier. Guillermo Garcia Salazar, who was head of the FARC’s urban Antonio Nariño Front, was detained in...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Apr 28, 2011 | News
Spain is set to send humanitarian supplies to Colombia in an effort to alleviate some of the strain on the Colombian state caused by the rainy season, El Espectador reports. The Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Apr 27, 2011 | News
The advisor to former President Alvaro Uribe, Jose Obdulio Gaviria, heavily criticized in 2009 current President Juan Manuel Santos and other potential candidates to the presidency during the debate over Uribe’s quest for...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Apr 27, 2011 | News
Hundreds of people are working throughout the day to try and contain rising flood waters in Bogota which have begun reaching the city’s main international airport. Eight hundred and fifty employees from Bogota’s...
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