Posted by Kathryn Thompson | Apr 11, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Chief of National Police General Oscar Naranjo has said that while the homicide rate in Bogota has fallen, citizens still feel unsafe in their city due to incomplete public works, local media reported. In March...
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The scandal-hit AIS agricultural subsidy program has returned under a new name with strict precautions to ensure the money is delivered to where its needed, Caracol Radio reported on Monday. The new program, the Rural...
Read MorePosted by Kathryn Thompson | Apr 9, 2011 | News
A man suspected of being a link between Colombia’s largest guerrilla group the FARC and the Spanish terrorist group ETA has been captured in Caucasia, Antioquia department, and is to be extradited to Spain, local media...
Read MorePosted by Kathryn Thompson | Apr 9, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez to Colombia at Cartagena airport on Saturday morning. Upon arriving in the coastal city at around 11:00AM Saturday, Chavez was informed...
Read MorePosted by Kathryn Thompson | Apr 9, 2011 | News
Racist undercurrents, discrimination and segregation are still plaguing the Colombian capital of Bogota, newspaper El Espectador reported Saturday. In the International Year of African Descendants, the news comes as a blow to a...
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