Posted by Marguerite Cawley | Feb 23, 2011 | News
Former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo is angry over the U.S. failure to ratify the free trade agreement (FTA) with his country, W Radio reported Tuesday. After more than three hours of discussion in a meeting of the...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Feb 23, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Vice Prosecutor General has confirmed accusations that former congressman Luis Carlos Restrepo had ties to a now-extradited narco-trafficker, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. In the decision, Vice Prosecutor...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Feb 22, 2011 | News
After five months in a government morgue, the corpse of former FARC leader Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, alias “Mono Jojoy,” has been transferred to the Jardines del Apogeo cemetery for burial, Caracol Radio reported...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Feb 22, 2011 | News
An aircraft being used by narco-traffickers is stopped and seized on Colombia’s Pacific coast by the air force, El Espectador reported Tuesday. According to the article, the unregistered Piper aircraft was detected by air...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Feb 22, 2011 | Culture
More than 20 of Colombia’s indigenous languages are in danger of disappearing, according to a report from the Ministry of Culture released Monday. A study by the Ministry of Culture in conjunction with the International...
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