Posted by Marguerite Cawley | May 5, 2011 | News
Colombia’s internal armed conflict will likely be recognized in the Victims Law, but political recognition will not be given to illegal armed groups, members of the bill’s coordinating committee said Thursday. Senate...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | May 5, 2011 | Lite
A Bogota parking attendant has, in poor taste, chosen to visually identify himself with fallen al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Hichster Londoño Hasmet is the “Colombian Osama,” who carries a wooden AK-47, grows a...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | May 5, 2011 | zSports
Jairo Clopatosfky Ghisays, director of Coldeportes, the Colombian sports council, has been elected as the new president of the American Sports Council (CADE). Clopatofsky’s election took place during a Wednesday...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | May 5, 2011 | News
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will travel to Colombia’s capital Thursday to consolidate and strengthen bilateral relations, as well as to take part in a book fair, reported local media. After being received at the...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | May 5, 2011 | News
Authorities have captured two suspected members of the criminal drug trafficking band Los Rastrojos, among them the presumed extortion chief. The arrests took place in the southwest city of Cali on Wednesday. A third man...
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