Posted by Tom Heyden | Mar 22, 2011 | News
Colombia will take part Wednesday in a simulated tsunami alert, along with 32 other Caribbean countries, in order to test the capabilities of the region’s coastal nations in withstanding any potential threat following the...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 22, 2011 | News
One of the main leaders of the narco-trafficking group “Los Paisas,” allegedly responsible for the alliance between his gang and fellow drug traffickers “Los Rastrojos,” has been captured by police in...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 21, 2011 | News
The FARC appear to have asked the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi for a $100 million loan in order to buy missiles, while also corresponding with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega over the coordination of Libyan support in the...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 21, 2011 | News
The Colombian army has seized 2.3 tons of marijuana that allegedly belonged to the FARC and destroyed several greenhouses used to grow the drug, El Espectador reported Monday. The marijuana, which was kept in 44 pound packs, was...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Mar 21, 2011 | News
Hours after the government concluded the land restitution of some 63,000 acres to Afro-Colombian communities in the Choco department, illegal armed groups raided and burned several acres of crops, Caracol Radio reported Monday....
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