Posted by Sarah Cast | Oct 26, 2011 | News
The Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office said Tuesday that only 10 people were killed during the 1997 Mapiripan slaughter, rather than the 50 that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights said were killed. According to the...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Cast | Oct 25, 2011 | News
An average of four children are kidnapped each month in Colombia, most by common criminals, according to an NGO report released Monday. According to a report by the non-profit foundation Pais Libre, 15% of the 1,400 victims...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Cast | Oct 25, 2011 | Lite
Colombian pop superstar Shakira will perform at the Latin Grammy Awards on November 10. The Barranquilla native’s latest album “Sale El Sol” (The Sun Comes Out), which she has been promoting on her world tour since September...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Cast | Oct 21, 2011 | News
Two elderly Colombians and two young children, aged 6 and 10, claimed that they were brutally beaten by uniformed police officers during an interrogation about the kidnapping of the Fortul mayor’s young daughter, Colombian media...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Cast | Oct 21, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin conveyed Israel’s conditional offer to freeze government construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, international media reported...
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