Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 12, 2013 | News
A retired police major accused of participating in the 1989 murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan surrendered on Monday to authorities. According to reports Luis Felipe Montilla Barbosa, the former police official...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 12, 2013 | News
The ombudsman of Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, said on Monday 327 people were murdered in the city in the first two months of this year, an 18% increase compared to the same period in 2012. 301 of the deaths were...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 12, 2013 | War and peace
Venezuela’s acting president, Nicolas Maduro, said on Monday he would work for a lasting peace in Colombia if elected president at the presidential elections in April. “When I become president of the Bolivarian...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 11, 2013 | News
A motorcycle bomb attack attributed to FARC rebels against a police station left 14 civilians and three policemen wounded in the southwest of Colombia Monday. The attack, which was registered in the urban area of the Timbio...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 11, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, could be close to joining the ongoing peace process between the larger rebel group FARC and the Colombian government, newspaper El Espectador reported Sunday. According to...
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