Posted by Manuela Kuehr | Nov 17, 2010 | News
Almost half of Colombia’s departments have issued red alerts due to heavy rains in this year’s prolonged rainy season, Caracol Radio reports. The government of Antioquia has extended the red alert for the entire...
Read MorePosted by Manuela Kuehr | Nov 17, 2010 | News
Police on Tuesday seized over 2 tons of pressed marijuana and 44 kilos of cocaine in two separate operations in the western Colombia department of Valle del Cauca, El Tiempo reports. The first operation went ahead in the village...
Read MorePosted by Manuela Kuehr | Nov 17, 2010 | News
The FARC controls 15 gold mines in the northern Colombia department of Bolivar and are estimated to receive COP1.6 billion ($850,000) per year from this business, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday. An intelligence officer...
Read MorePosted by Manuela Kuehr | Nov 16, 2010 | News
More than 15,000 Colombian refugees in Ecuador are set to return home over the next four years, according to the department for refugees, part of Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry, RCN Radio reports. Alfonso Morales, director of...
Read MorePosted by Manuela Kuehr | Nov 16, 2010 | News
FARC guerrillas allegedly ambushed and killed four policemen in the rural area of the southwestern Colombian town of Jamundi. The policemen arrived on motorcycles in the area of Rio Claro after receiving a call about a shooting....
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