Posted by Teresa Welsh | Nov 9, 2010 | News
Three men convicted of the 2009 murder of 12 people from Colombia’s Awa indigenous group were sentenced Tuesday to 52 years in jail, Efe reports. Jose Miguel Castro, Daniel Cuasuluzan Rodriguez and Carlos Enrique Malpu...
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Colombia’s Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras on Tuesday said Colombia may appeal against the European Court of Human Rights’ block on extraditing Israeli mercenary Yair Klein to Colombia, where he...
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Colombia’s Supreme Court orders the recapture of Felipe Sierra and John Manco Torres, alias “El Indio,” alleged associates of drug trafficker Daniel Herrera Rendon, alias “Don Mario,” reports El...
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According to court testimony from former DAS official Gustavo Sierra obtained by La F.m., former Vice President Francisco Santos and many other top officials in the Uribe government knew about illegal wiretapping carried out by...
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The Polo Democratico political party requested Monday that the government investigate the murders of 29 social leaders that have been killed during the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos. Victims have been union...
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