Posted by James Bargent | Sep 19, 2011 | News
At least four people were injured in clashes between police and oil workers who are blocking roads at a Pacific Rubiales site in central Colombia in protest against stalled pay negotiations. One protester, Antonio Rodriguez,...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 16, 2011 | News
Murdered academic Alfredo Correa de Andreis wrote to then President Alvaro Uribe asking for help after he was arrested by the Colombian secret service and accused of collaboration with guerrilla insurgents in 2004. In the...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 16, 2011 | News
Two separate opinion polls show the Progressive Movement`s Gustavo Petro and the Green Party’s Enrique Peñalosa in a virtual tie in the race to be Bogota’s next mayor. A poll conducted by the National Center for Statistics (CNC)...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 16, 2011 | News
Panamanian authorities would consider extraditing wanted ex-spy chief Maria del Pilar Hurtado if Colombia requested it, according to Panama`s Secretary of State. Roberto Henriquez said, “in the eventuality that the [state...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 15, 2011 | News
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent over half a million dollars funding an Afro-Colombian caucus dominated by politicians accused of ties to illegal armed groups or of corruption, according to diplomatic...
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