Posted by Marguerite Cawley | Mar 30, 2011 | News
The FARC is reorganizing and gaining strength in various municipalities in central Colombia’s Meta department, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. A number of recent attacks on public force members, burning of public...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Mar 30, 2011 | News
The Colombian army captures FARC commander alias “Mario,” the second in command of the FARC’s 66th Front, several media reported Tuesday. The capture was a result of combat that took place in a rural part of...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Mar 29, 2011 | News
Medellin streets filled with members of the community Tuesday protesting the rise in violence against their youth. The march was in reaction to the murder of 17-year-old rapper Daniel Alejandro Sierra, known in the hip hop...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Mar 29, 2011 | News
More than 100 high-profile prisoners have been transferred from Boyaca to Bogota to reduce operational costs for Colombia’s national prison authority, INPEC. Early Tuesday morning, officials initiated the process of moving...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Mar 28, 2011 | Economy
The Colombian Embassy in Washington D.C. will flood the halls of Congress with Colombian roses this Tuesday, in a symbolic move to pressure the U.S. government to extend the trade preferences act. The United States Congress...
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