Posted by Tom Heyden | May 19, 2011 | News
Colombian police have discovered a fragmentation grenade left in a park close to the Prosecutor General’s Office in Bogota, El Espectador reported Thursday. Police were tipped off on Wednesday night by a local inhabitant...
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Colombia’s comptroller general has opened investigations into the alleged payment of rewards for the killing of three FARC guerrillas in 2005, 2007 and 2009, El Espectador reported Thursday. The comptroller has apparently...
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Since April 2010, Colombia’s relentless rainy season has claimed the lives of 452 people, with some 3.4 million affected across the country, El Espectador reported Thursday. A landslide in the northcentral department of...
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After Colombia’s Supreme Court dismissed the “Raul Reyes” files as inadmissible in legal proceedings, there is a chance that former Senator Piedad Cordoba could seek to regain her seat, El Espectador reported....
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | May 19, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Minister of the Interior and Justice German Vargas Lleras has warned that the country’s regional elections could be infiltrated by people who wish to impede the land restitution process. Vargas Lleras has...
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