Posted by Rob Edmond | Jan 11, 2013 | News
The prosecution against Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe on Thursday revealed why the case accusing him of having ties to the now-disbanded paramilitary group AUC has been reopened. Uribe is charged with playing an...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Jan 11, 2013 | Culture
Shakira has written the foreword to a new book by her father that is due to be presented in Barcelona on January 14. William Merberak, an established journalist, poet, essayist and writer will present his book at a ceremony...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Jan 11, 2013 | News
A Bogota court on Thursday denied a request to annul the trial against an extradited Colombian drug trafficker. The judgement call of Luis Gomez Bustamante, alias “Rasguño,” who was extradited to the United States in...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Jan 11, 2013 | News
Colombia’s environment minister on Thursday said to be concerned over plans to build lodges in a national park on the country’s Caribbean coast. Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Juan Gabriel Uribe...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Jan 11, 2013 | War and peace
The United States former president Jimmy Carter will travel to Bogota Saturday to assess the ongoing peace talks between Colombia’s government and its largest leftist guerrilla group, the FARC. Carter, president between...
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