Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 18, 2013 | News
Colombian police claimed to have captured over 1,600 members of illegal armed groups during 2012, local media reported on Friday. Police said that out of more than 1,600 arrests, 684 members of these groups had been tried and...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 18, 2013 | News
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, ELN, allegedly kidnapped three foreigners and two Colombians in northern Colombia. Caracol Radio initially reported that the foreigners, employees of an oil or mining company active...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 18, 2013 | Economy
The Colombian peso on Wednesday reached a three-week high against the US dollar as a new tax cut is expected to entice foreign investors to buy up Colombian debt. According to Bloomberg News, foreign companies are also likely to...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 17, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday said that agreements achieved in the peace process with the country’s largest rebel group FARC, could be “popularly approved” but not through a “constituent assembly.”...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 17, 2013 | News
The extradited leader of the defunct paramilitary group AUC, accused a former governor of having links to paramilitaries and of aiding the founders of “Los Pepes” — the notorious vigilante group that helped...
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