Posted by Marguerite Cawley | Jun 27, 2011 | News
A confrontation between guerrillas and local police in northern Colombia left one guerrilla dead and another gravely injured, Caracol Radio reported Monday. Guerrillas reportedly attacked a local police station in the...
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The capital city of Colombia’s southwest department of Huila has chosen 19-year-old Edna Julieth Castañeda Garzon as the new Miss Neiva for 2011. The young beauty queen, who was elected on Saturday, apparently won over the...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Jun 27, 2011 | News
Colombian hospitals have been forced to turn to the government for assistance due to severe resource shortages, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. Hospitals throughout Colombia are in danger of being forced to suspend services...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Jun 24, 2011 | News
Former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt has announced plans to join the hunger strike to be initiated Saturday by the mothers of two U.S. men arbitrarily detained in Iran, Colombian media reported Friday. The French-Colombian...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Jun 24, 2011 | Lite
Colombian television presenter and former beauty queen Carolina Cruz strutted her stuff for Ellas magazine, a subsidiary of newspaper El Espectador. The Cali-born RCN presenter recently posed for the newspaper’s...
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