Posted by Tim Hinchliffe | Dec 1, 2011 | News
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos denounced the FARC on Wednesday for their cowardice and cruelty in the killing of four hostages, who were members of the armed forces. “Last Saturday, four of our heroes were...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Nov 30, 2011 | News
The FARC are entirely to blame for the deaths of four hostages executed during a military offensive, and claims they were to be released are preposterous, Colombia’s police and army chiefs said Wednesday. Police chief...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Nov 30, 2011 | News
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has denied influencing the national drug agency to give land seized from traffickers to a church in Cali. At the disciplinary hearing of Senator Roy Barreras, who is being investigated...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Nov 30, 2011 | News
Former Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba accused President Juan Manuel Santos of failing to listen to civil society, in newspaper El Espectador Wednesday. The former senator claimed that Colombia’s head of state “does...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Nov 30, 2011 | News
Colombian Ponzi scheme DMG must pay victims $11.7 million, a Bogota court decided Tuesday. The court ruled that DMG, which Colombian authorities said was a pyramid scheme that laundered money for drug lords, must repay its...
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