Posted by Sarah Cast | Sep 30, 2011 | Culture
A bank robber, a priest, an assassin, and a soldier bet everything they own on one game in celebrated Colombian director Juan Sebastian Valencia’s new melodramatic suspense “Poker,” which opened Friday in Colombian theaters...
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A Bogota court on Thursday dropped the case against the sons of former President Alvaro Uribe, over their alleged role in the irregular acquisition of land west of Colombia’s capital. According to newspaper El Colombiano,...
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An armed group on Thursday abducted the 10-year-old daughter of the mayor of Fortul, a village in the northeast of Colombia. Mayor Jorge Muñoz’s daughter Nhora and her mother were walking along a Fortul street just before 7AM...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Cast | Sep 29, 2011 | News
Juan Carlos Rivera, alias “06,” has been extradited to the United States to face trial for trafficking 98 tons of cocaine from Colombia into the U.S. Alias “06” will be tried by a court in Tampa, Florida, W Radio announced...
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Colombia has the fifth worst reputation in the world, said a recent poll measuring Group of 8 (G8) citizens’ perception of 50 countries around the world. In the annual Country RepTrak poll, Colombia was awarded a score of 37.08...
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