Posted by James Bargent | Aug 11, 2011 | Culture
Colombian singer Andres Cabas is to release a new album which, he says, will “unite the joy of his Caribbean roots with the simplicity and sobriety of having grown up in Bogota and traveled the world.” Recorded in a Buenos Aires...
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FARC supreme leader “Alfonso Cano” has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in a 1998 guerrilla onslaught on a southwest-Colombian town that left scores dead and reduced the town center to rubble. On November 1,...
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Venezuela confirmed Wednesday that it has begun the extradition process of a prominent FARC leader and guerrilla songsmith whose arrest in Venezuela was announced in June. Guillermo Enrique Torres, alias “Julian Conrado,” and...
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Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS has seized estates, luxury vehicles and goods worth over $22 million belonging to Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, the agency announced Wednesday. Inside the 32 estates in the Quindío,...
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Lawyers representing the family of Jaime Garzon have implicated top Colombian generals in the journalist and comedian’s murder in 1999 as they make their case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Rafael Barrios...
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