Posted by Edward Fox | Feb 21, 2011 | News
Wikileaks cables released on Sunday reveal the events that led to the breakdown of the peace process between the government and the demobilized AUC. According to a cable dated December 7, 2006, the announcement the previous day...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 21, 2011 | News
Wikileaks has published a series of cables from 2006 highlighting significant failings in the Justice and Peace Law (JPL) that led demobilized paramilitary fighters to return to arms. In November 2006, Sergio Caramagna, the...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 19, 2011 | News
Colombian media on Friday published conflicting stories about “Alfonso Cano.” According to news website La Silla Vacia the supreme leader of the FARC has been killed, but authorities and other media denied the death...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 18, 2011 | Economy
The government has announced that it will provide $150 million in loans to help exporters suffering from the recent expiration of trade preferences under the ATPDEA (Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act). The ATPDEA,...
Read MorePosted by Edward Fox | Feb 18, 2011 | News
In his testimony before the Supreme Court, Colonel Julio Cesar Prieto accused ex-congressman Alfonso Riaño of links to paramilitaries, reports El Espectador. Recounting what now-demobilized groups allegedly told him, Prieto said...
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