Posted by Katharina Wecker | Jul 13, 2012 | News
A Colombian judge denied the freedom request of former Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno Thursday ahead of his embezzlement trial. Moreno’s attorney argued that his client would not obstruct the judicial process leading up to his...
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Hundreds of Colombian workers blocked two bridges on the Colombian-Venezuelan border on Thursday to protest Venezuela’s crackdown on cross-border smuggling of food and fuel. The protesters shut down traffic on the...
Read MorePosted by Katharina Wecker | Jul 12, 2012 | News
The alleged head of assassins for the Colombia’s largest drug cartel, “Los Rastrojos,” was extradited to the United States, police announced Thursday. Carlos Hugo Garcia, alias “Chocolate,” was...
Read MorePosted by Katharina Wecker | Jul 12, 2012 | News
Colombian police arrested 59 criminals within the last 24 hours in a crackdown on crime in Colombia’s third biggest city Cali. Local police installed checkpoints across the city’s most violent areas, where they...
Read MorePosted by Katharina Wecker | Jul 12, 2012 | News
A drug lord arrested at his own wedding asked guests to give money to poor colombian children instead of giving gifts. In their wedding invitation, former neo-paramilitary commander Camilo Torres, alias “Fritanga,”...
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