Posted by James Bargent | Aug 22, 2011 | News
Police launched an offensive against Colombia’s leading drug trafficking gang, “Los Rastrojos,” in Valle de Cauca, seizing drugs and weapons and arresting a regional boss and 18 others. Jesus Antonio Moncada Mateus,...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Aug 22, 2011 | zSports
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has waded into the dispute surrounding Colombian soccer coach Hernan Dario, “Bolillo” Gomez, who resigned after hitting a woman in Bogota bar. Local media reported that the president,...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Aug 22, 2011 | Economy
There is set to be a fall in gas prices in Colombia as the government looks to implement new price controls, Caracol Radio reported Monday. Energy Minister Carlos Rodado announced, “at the end of this month we could reduce the...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Aug 22, 2011 | News
Protesters in 22 cities around Colombia took to the streets in a “masked march” against corruption on Sunday. Colombian media reported hundreds of protesters assembled from Popayan to Cartagena, all dressed as thieves in black...
Read MorePosted by James Bargent | Aug 19, 2011 | News
Allies of Alvaro Uribe have leapt to the ex-president’s defense after his claim’s that he had been the victim of a conspiracy of “criminal vengeance.” Within hours of Uribe’s testimony to the Accusations Commission investigating...
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