Posted by Jean Carrere | Nov 9, 2011 | News
Colombian students say they maintain massive protests scheduled on Thursday, despite President Juan Manuel Santos’ proposal to withdraw a controversial reform on education. Santos told the students that he “accepts...
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President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday he is willing to withdraw a controversial higher education reform bill that has sparked massive student protests throughout Colombia. According to the presidential Twitter account,...
Read MorePosted by Jean Carrere | Nov 9, 2011 | News
Prominent columnist and conflict analyst Leon Valencia has fled Colombia due to death threats, while his colleague told RCN Radio Wednesday he will have to leave the country as well. Ariel Avila, an investigator for the...
Read MorePosted by Jean Carrere | Nov 8, 2011 | News
Leaders of Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador arrived in Bogota on Tuesday to hold a meeting of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN). Bolivian President Evo Morales and Peruvian President Ollanta Humala said they wanted to...
Read MorePosted by Jean Carrere | Nov 8, 2011 | News
A Canadian sailor who was caught off the Colombian coast smuggling 881 pounds of cocaine claims there is “nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking” and U.S. authorities should “mind their own business,”...
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