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Colombia’s transport minister calls the behavior of mayors who booed him at a local government summit “shameful,” and says he hopes news of the incident will not reach the international…
Colombia’s transport minister calls the behavior of mayors who booed him at a local government summit “shameful,” and says he hopes news of the incident will not reach the international…
Extradited paramilitary leader Ramiro “Cucoy Vanoy” Murillo is charged by Colombian prosecutors with 192 separate criminal acts, including torture and murder, Spanish news agency reported EFE Thursday. The eight-day-long hearing…
The Colombian Opera will celebrate its 35th anniversary with a performance by famed tenor Juan Diego Florez, events website Plan B announced Thursday. Florez is the “the greatest light tenor…
Finnish soprano Tarja Turunen will return to Colombia to promote her third album “What Lies Beneath,” events website Plan B reported Thursday. Turunen rose to fame as the lead vocalist…
Former Medellin chief prosecutor Guillermo Leon Valencia Cossio says he did not meet with drug-trafficker “El Indio” and that he was at a motel with a female friend, Caracol Radio reported…
In light of an investigatin, the governor of Antioquia, Colombia, denies having paramilitary ties. “I have never in my life needed paramilitaries, guerrillas or narco-traffickers in my political career. My…
Family members of demobilized paramilitary leaders gear up their campaigns for Colombian local government positions in the 2011 elections, newspaper El Tiempo reported Thursday. Roberto Jiminez Naranjo, the brother of extradited…
Colombia launched an emergency plan to control the country’s mines and provide better saftey for workers, RCN Radio reported Thursday. The new measures include requiring the highest levels of security…
Colombia is the first country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on biodiversity at an environmental conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Spanish newspaper ABC reports. The environmental treaty, which…