Posted by Miriam Wells | Dec 15, 2011 | News
Farmers accused of faking displacement rallied in Bogota Wednesday to demand an apology from Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. About 100 farmers from Las Pavas, a community which has been accused of lying about being...
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More than 500 farmers arrive in Cartagena, north Colombia, after a two-day march to demand justice for a massacre committed in 2002. The villagers walked from Maria La Baja, a town in the north-western department of Bolivar, to...
Read MorePosted by Miriam Wells | Dec 14, 2011 | News
Colombian military and police have detained a guerrilla alleged to be the chief financial officer for a FARC front which perpetrated a massacre in 2002, reported newspaper El Colombiano. The rebel, aliases “Nicolas...
Read MorePosted by Miriam Wells | Dec 14, 2011 | News
Rescue workers digging up three houses buried in a landslide in northern Colombian have found the bodies of four minors, aged between 5 and 17, reported Radio Caracol Wednesday. Eleven people are now known to have died when 500...
Read MorePosted by Miriam Wells | Dec 14, 2011 | News
An 18-year-old singer has died during surgery to improve her nose in north eastern Colombia. Katyuska Mendoza, a member of the Vallenatos Children band, had the operation at a clinic in Valledupar. The teenager had been singing...
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