Posted by Jet van Dijck | Jun 20, 2012 | News
Police have seized a shipment of marijuana valued at $225,000 in central Colombia, Radio Caracol reported Wednesday. The drugs were apparently concealed in a load of pumpkins on a service truck that was intercepted in the...
Read MorePosted by Jet van Dijck | Jun 20, 2012 | News
A confrontation between indigenous people and farmers in southwestern Colombia injured fourteen people, Radio Caracol reported Thursday. The clash occurred at midnight on Tuesday and was apparently the result of a dispute over...
Read MorePosted by Jet van Dijck | Jun 19, 2012 | Economy
Ashes emitted by Colombia’s volcano Nevado del Ruiz has negatively affected tourism, transport and agriculture in the central-eastern region, local media reported Tuesday. A May 29 earthquake sent plumes of ash 4,000 feet...
Read MorePosted by Jet van Dijck | Jun 18, 2012 | News
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe asked Mauricio Santoyo, his retired chief of security, to explain drug trafficking charges of drug trafficking made against him in the United States, local media reported Sunday. Uribe...
Read MorePosted by Jet van Dijck | Jun 18, 2012 | News
Of the 1,383,000 indigenous people in Colombia, at least 55,000 are facing food shortages, local media reported Sunday. According to Gabriel Muyuy Jacanamejoy, the director of the Presidential Program for Indigenous Affairs, the...
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