Posted by James Bargent | Sep 12, 2011 | News
Colombia’s vice-president Monday slammed new definitions of poverty from the National Planning Department, saying “I don’t know what planet they live on.” According to the revised definitions a person is not poor if he/she...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 12, 2011 | News
Police have arrested four women and one man from a gang known as “La Viuda Negra” – the Black Widow – who allegedly arranged marriages with desperate men before murdering them for life insurance payouts. Colonel Jose Gerardo...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 12, 2011 | News
Police in central Colombia have arrested a woman who allegedly kept FARC kidnap victims imprisoned in her house. Colombian media reported that Margarita Cortez Calderon, alias “La Mona,” was arrested in the rural zone of Puerto...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 12, 2011 | Economy
Colombian oil company Ecopetrol announced Monday it has struck oil in the central Colombia area of Caño Sur for the fourth time this year. After drilling for seven days in the department of Meta, they discovered deposits at a...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Sep 12, 2011 | News
The organizations that released suspicious opinion polls in Antioquia and Quindio are part of an alleged “black campaigning” for the upcoming local elections, according to El Espectador. Suspicions were raised when the...
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