Posted by Teresa Welsh | Nov 25, 2010 | News
Colombia’s national police seized 2.3 tons of drugs in a three-day operation to combat micro-trafficking, reports Caracol. Between Monday and Wednesday of this week, police seized heroin, cocaine, coca leaves, marijuana...
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A Colombian House of Representatives commission approves the proposed Victims Law, which will compensate those who suffered violence in the country’s armed conflict. Colombia is poised to be the first Latin American...
Read MorePosted by Teresa Welsh | Nov 25, 2010 | Southwest Colombia
The border between Colombia and Ecuador at the international bridge of Rumichaca will be closed Sunday, November 28 for the Ecuadorean census, reports RCN. The bridge, which connects the Colombian municipality of Ipiales in the...
Read MorePosted by Teresa Welsh | Nov 25, 2010 | News
Mexico’s arrest of Carlos Mauricio Poveda, alias “El Conejo,” marks the 18th major Colombian narco-trafficker captured or killed abroad in the last six years, according to Caracol Radio. Poveda spent time in...
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Transparency for Colombia, the Colombian chapter of Transparency International, on Thursday released its 2008-2009 Departmental and Municipal Transparency Indexes which measure corruption in Colombia’s local government...
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