Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Apr 29, 2013 | News
The Colombian armed forces on Sunday captured 13 suspected FARC rebels in the southwestern Nariño department. The presumed rebels were arrested in the Pacific Tumaco municipality, close to the Ecuadorean border, in a joint...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Apr 19, 2013 | News
Eleven Colombians are currently awaiting the death penalty in China for trafficking cocaine into the East Asian nation, highlighting the its increased importance as a market for cocaine. The Colombian nationals were arrested in...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Apr 19, 2013 | News
A prominent member of drug trafficking organization “Los Rastrojos” was killed Thursday in Colombia’s third largest city Cali. Los Rastrojos member Jose Leonardo Hortua Blandon, alias “Mascota,” was shot to death by...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Apr 19, 2013 | News
House Representative Angela Robledo says a new bill proposing improved access to the justice system for conflict victims could end “systematic and generalized” violence against women in Colombia. “The project presented by myself...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Apr 18, 2013 | News
The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a project seeking to modify Colombia’s code of law to improve access to justice for victims of sexual violence in the ongoing armed conflict. “The project proposes the...
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