Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 27, 2012 | News
Alleged FARC guerrillas have attacked an oil installation in southwestern Colombia Friday morning, local media reported. According to local authorities, the FARC guerrillas bombed an oil pipeline in the Orito municipality,...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 27, 2012 | News
Colombia’s National Police have seized 78 rifles allegedly belonging to the Sixth Front of the rebel group FARC in the southwestern Cauca department, said the police in a press statement Friday. Police said the firearms, of...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 27, 2012 | News
Out of 19 Latin American countries Colombia had the 7th best “law and crime” indicators, according to a new report from the news analysis website Latinvex. Chile 48.8 Uruguay 41.9 Costa Rica 37.2 Brazil 32.6 Panama...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 26, 2012 | News
Colombia’s newly- appointed minister of justice described a recent UN report indicating an increase in the country’s coca cultivation as a crucial part of policy creation. “The report on illegal drug cultivation in...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jul 26, 2012 | News
A Bogota court ordered Colombia’s Justice Ministry to protect the family of the extradited ex-AUC commander Salvatore Mancuso before giving further testimonies about his paramilitary activities, reported newspaper El...
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