Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 22, 2013 | News
A pair of Peruvian army officers on Monday arrived in Bolivar, northern Colombia, to aid the Colombian armed forces in their search for the two Peruvian contractors kidnapped on Friday by the leftist rebel group, ELN. According...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 21, 2013 | News
An attack attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Monday left the first army soldier dead since the end of a two-month unilateral truce. The assault took place in the municipality of Tarra, close to the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 21, 2013 | News
The governor of Norte de Santander, one of the most war-torn departments in Colombia, on Monday said parts of his department have been “forgotten by the government.” “The government has to look with new eyes at the Catatumbo, a...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 21, 2013 | News
Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, launched a series of attacks after ending their two-month unilateral ceasefire. The first attack took place in the northern Norte de Santander department, where guerrilla fighters from the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 18, 2013 | Economy
Colombia’s economic success is not dependent on the outcome of the ongoing FARC-government peace negotiations, said the country’s finance minister, Mauricio Cardenas, on Friday. “The economy is going very well and is not...
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