Posted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 25, 2012 | News
Gustavo Petro, the mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota, on Monday called for narcotics seized by the police in raids to be given to addicts in his proposed drug treatment centers. The mayor proposed on Monday that the drugs...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 25, 2012 | News
Authorities captured the drug lord “El Indio” on Tuesday, who is suspected of being involved with a spate of beheadings which have plagued the Tulua area in the western Colombian Valle del Cauca department. El Indio,...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 25, 2012 | News
The director of Colombia’s family welfare institute has deplored the landmine tragedy which left a three-year-old girl dead and another five with shrapnel wounds in a rural area in Tolima of western Colombia. Director...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 25, 2012 | Caribbean
The controversial seven-star hotel project in Colombia’s Tayrona National Park is to be revived according to newspaper El Tiempo on Tuesday. Despite the fact that the project was rejected last October under suspicions that...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 24, 2012 | News
A Colombian retired general was charged with five crimes related to the false demobilization of the illegal armed group “Cacica la Gaitana” on Monday. Former general Leilo Suarez Tocarruncho was charged...
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