Posted by Tom Heyden | Mar 25, 2011 | Culture
Gloria Valencia de Castaño, the so-called ‘First Lady’ of Colombian television, dies aged 83 after suffering from various health problems, El Espectador reports Thursday. The pioneering small screen icon was...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 25, 2011 | News
A bus travelling from Bogota to Medellin has crashed and rolled down the side of a mountain, resulting in ten fatalities and a further 12 wounded, Caracol reports Friday. The bus reportedly departed from Bogota at 9PM Thursday...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 24, 2011 | News
The leader of a group of people displaced by violence, who was campaigning for land restitution, is murdered in a busy shopping mall in the south of Medellin, Caracol reported Thursday. David de Jesus Goez Rodriguez, 70, who was...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 24, 2011 | News
Colombia’s prosecutor general’s office has reopened an investigation into a meeting between the former AUC spokesman and several government officials that took place at the presidential palace in Bogota in 2008. The...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 24, 2011 | News
Liberal Party member Guillermo Rivera has launched a stinging attack on former President Alvaro Uribe’s administration, labelling Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups as his “legacy” and stating that the...
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