Posted by Edward Fox | Mar 11, 2011 | News
Bogota police forcibly removed eight displaced families Thursday from the Institute for Family Welfare building (ICBF) in the country’s capital after an occupation that lasted more than two years, El Espectador reports. Of...
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Friends of Frederick Garcha, a young British man who was murdered Saturday in Medellin, Colombia, start an appeal to raise money to repatriate his body. The appeal, “Bring Freddie Home,” was started to ease the...
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President Juan Manuel Santos warned Thursday that any foreign company that pays a ransom to terrorist groups for kidnapped employees will not be allowed to do business in Colombia. Speaking in the department of Meta, Santos...
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President Juan Manuel Santos traveled to the central Meta department to oversee the return of over 42,000 acres of land to local people forced to abandon their homes by violence, Colombian media reported Thursday. The land is...
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Former Medellin chief prosecutor Guillermo Leon Valencia Cossio was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison by the Supreme Court for his ties to drug lord and former paramilitary chief Daniel Rendon Herrera, alias “Don...
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