Posted by Tom Heyden | May 12, 2011 | News
The explosion of a fragmentation grenade has left 12 people injured in the troubled, hillside eastern Medellin neighborhood of La Sierra, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. Three policemen and nine civilians were wounded, inluding...
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Contrary to the announcement by Medellin Mayor Alonso Salazar, major drug lord “Valenciano” has not been captured, Colombian police said late Wednesday. Following the initial confusion, it emerged that the detainee...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | May 11, 2011 | News
Three people have been kidnapped in Nariño, southern Colombia, with the ELN suspected to be the culprits, RCN Radio reported Wednesday. An engineer and a social manager of the Solarte Hermanos construction firm, who were making...
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Former Presidents Alvaro Uribe and Ernesto Samper have continued the debate over whether to recognize that Colombia has an “armed conflict,” in an occasionally heated face-off on W Radio Wednesday. Incumbent...
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Colombia’s recently-restored relations with Venezuela and Ecuador will not be beset by the fallout from a new report about the two neighbors’ alleged links to the FARC, said Colombia’s foreign minister. The...
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