Posted by Travis Mannon | Aug 22, 2011 | News
More than 750 pedestrians have already been killed in traffic accidents in 2011, the director of transit police said Sunday. In an interview with Caracol Radio, police official Rodolfo Palomino said that although the number has...
Read MorePosted by Travis Mannon | Aug 19, 2011 | News
A fugitive Army lieutenant was found not guilty of conspiring to assassinate presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, who was murdered in 1989. Lieutenant Carlos Humberto Florez was accused by a witness, just two months after...
Read MorePosted by Travis Mannon | Aug 19, 2011 | News
Authorities rescued more than 50 dogs held in overcrowded conditions by a Chinese citizen in the España neighborhood of Cartagena, Colombian media reported Friday. According to El Universal, police arrived at the house of a...
Read MorePosted by Travis Mannon | Aug 19, 2011 | News
A former paramilitary leader accused ex-Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, who oversaw the demobilization of the AUC, of inflating the numbers of demobilized paramilitary members, Colombian media reported. The ex-head of...
Read MorePosted by Travis Mannon | Aug 19, 2011 | News
More than two million Colombians were displaced by the 2010-11 rainy season, affecting every region in the country, announced statistics agency DANE. According to a DANE report which examined the affects of the flood, 2,350,207...
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