Posted by Rosemary Westwood | Apr 23, 2012 | News
A team of U.S. computer experts has arrived in Colombia to help national authorities recover information from the computer of deceased FARC leader “Alfonso Cano,” reported Colombian newspaper El Espectador Monday....
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Authorities have prevented a “cartel of lawyers” from siphoning $253.8 million from the national teacher’s pensions fund, local media reported Monday. , through hundreds of irregular court decisions in the...
Read MorePosted by Rosemary Westwood | Apr 23, 2012 | Lite
Nicolas Carvajal Uribe became the first Colombian to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat after more than 80 days alone at sea. The 31-year-old British resident arrived April 20 in the coastal city of Georgetown, Guyana, to the...
Read MorePosted by Rosemary Westwood | Apr 23, 2012 | News
Colombia’s army has captured an alleged FARC drug lab and more than 2 tons of cocaine in southwest Nariño department. Troops seized 2,121 kilograms of cocaine from the lab, which spanned 5,400 square meters, roughly the...
Read MorePosted by Rosemary Westwood | Apr 20, 2012 | News
Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon will meet with his United States counterpart on Monday, the ministry has announced. It did not provide details of the topics up for discussion when Pinzon meets with Leon Panetta at...
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