Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 31, 2012 | News
Medellin’s mayor Anibal Gaviria Correa said Monday that homicides in Colombia’s second-largest city dropped a “historic” 37% in the first six months of 2012. “Only on two occasions in our city’s history,...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 31, 2012 | News
A semi-submersible vehicle capable of transporting up to six tons of cocaine has been found after a firefight in northwestern Colombia, local media reported Monday. The vehicle was heavily guarded at the time of detection....
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 31, 2012 | News
The drug trafficker Eduardo Restrepo Victoria, known as “El Socio,” was captured at Bogota’s El Dorado airport, local media reported Tuesday. El Socio, an important associate of the now-defunct Valle del Cauca-based Norte del...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 30, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Supreme Court confirmed Monday a national and international arrest warrant for Colombia’s former peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, who is being accused of faking the demobilization of a FARC unit in 2006,...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 27, 2012 | News
The neo-paramilitary network Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) issued pamphlets on Friday threatening “FARC symphatizers” with “social cleansing” in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department. “The time for social cleansing in...
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