Posted by Edward Fox | Feb 28, 2011 | News
After a week of negotiations, 2,000 people displaced from Bajo Cauca to Taraza in the Antioquia department reach an agreement with the local government to return home. The exodus began three weeks ago with the displaced, who...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 28, 2011 | News
Poor personal and institutional relations within the Colombian government were detrimental to the demobilization process according to a WikiLeaks cable released via El Espectador. In the cable dated June 5, 2006, then-U.S....
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 27, 2011 | News
A WikiLeaks cable released Sunday reveals how rumors began to circulate in 2008 about paramilitary involvement in the 2005 election of Colombia’s prosecutor general. In March 2010, former AUC leader Carlos Mario Jiminez,...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 25, 2011 | News
Despite her request, jailed former congresswoman Yidis Medina will not be identified as a victim of the illegal wiretapping carried out by Colombian intelligence agency DAS. Medina was sentenced to four years and two months...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 25, 2011 | News
Colombia’s comptroller general orders the seizure of goods and money belonging to ex-Agriculture Ministers Andres Felipe Arias and Andres Dario Fernandez as part of investigations into the misuse of government agricultural...
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