Posted by Tim Hinchliffe | Oct 18, 2011 | News
Heavy rains on Monday collapsed three sections of the “La Cordialidad” road that connects Cartagena with Barranquilla in northeast Colombia. According to radio station Caracol Radio, the main wipe-out occurred after...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Oct 18, 2011 | News
Colombian police seized 3.5 tons of marijuana on Tuesday in the northeast department of Norte de Santander. According to radio station Caracol Radio, the cannabis cache was seized from a “van-type truck” near the...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Oct 18, 2011 | News
Three Colombian soldiers were killed and two more were wounded Tuesday during a firefight with alleged FARC guerrillas in the rural municipality of Puerto Caicedo in the southern department of Putumayo. According to a brigade...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Oct 18, 2011 | Lite
A Colombian taxi driver was rewarded on Monday after returning $8,000 to a passenger in Cali. The driver, Humberto Semanate, had noticed that a portfolio belonging to a forgetful, foreign female passenger had been left in his...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Oct 18, 2011 | News
Colombian indigenous groups have said that their rights are being ignored by the government, which has granted the Davila Abondano family permission to construct a mega hotel project on their ancestral land. The spiritual...
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