Posted by Rosemary Westwood | May 30, 2012 | News
FARC rebels in Colombia released French journalist Romeo Langlois to negotiators on Wednesday, after a month-long international effort to free the kidnapped reporter. “I have never been tied up. I was treated like a...
Read MorePosted by Rosemary Westwood | May 30, 2012 | News
A convoy led by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was navigating difficult, remote terrain to reach the location where the FARC will release French journalist Romeo Langlois. “So far, according to my...
Read MorePosted by Rosemary Westwood | May 30, 2012 | News
One person has skin lesions and 16 animals have died in an anthrax outbreak in northern Colombia, near the Venezuelan border. A notification on the website for the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said the outbreak has...
Read MorePosted by Rosemary Westwood | May 28, 2012 | News
Colombia’s largest labor union has cheered the election of Briton Guy Ryder as the new head of the United Nations workers’ rights organization on Tuesday. Colombia’s Confederation of Workers’ (CUT)...
Read MorePosted by Rosemary Westwood | May 28, 2012 | News
Police tracking the movements of one of Colombia’s most-wanted drug bosses are now on the look out for slightly different face. Daniel “El Loco” Barrera, referred to as the “closest thing” to Pablo...
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