Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 24, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, on Thursday presented their last three rurual development proposals. The proposals included legalizing certain illegal crops “for therapeutic reasons”, creating a rural...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 24, 2013 | News
A Colombian judge on Thursday declined to issue an arrest warrant for the ex-director of the government agency charged with redistributing assets seized from drug gangs (DNE), claiming the former director is not a threat to...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 24, 2013 | News
The three foreigners captured last week by the left-wing insurgency group, the ELN, have been separated from the other two Colombian hostages and are being guarded by a different group of guerrillas, reported local media on...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 23, 2013 | News
Colombia’s chief supreme court justice on Wednesday said that cutting the wages and pensions of judges would put judicial independence in danger. Javier Zapata said judges who had served more than 30 years had labor rights...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 23, 2013 | News
The FARC’s top commander said that his organization is “not divided” when it comes to continuing peace talks with the Colombian government. Timoleon Jimenez, alias “Timochenko”, reportedly told...
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