Posted by Tom Heyden | Feb 23, 2011 | News
Authorities catch a gang of alleged kidnappers accused of luring victims to a fake brothel in Bogota, then extorting and torturing them once inside, Terra reports Wednesday. The so-called “Kidnap Express” group had...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Feb 22, 2011 | News
A Colombian former judge currently serving time for illegally releasing key narco-traffickers has his sentence halved by the Supreme Court, El Espectador reported Tuesday. Luis Eduardo Beltran was originally sentenced to 16...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Feb 22, 2011 | News
The director of Colombia’s disaster agency Civil Defense says that surveys listing the number of flood victims are inconsistent and occasionally wrong, El Espectador reported Tuesday. Major General Jairo Duban Pineda notes...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Feb 21, 2011 | News
A government initiative aimed at destroying the infrastructure of neo-paramilitary and narco-trafficking groups is yielding results, with 95 members captured last week, according to a government press release Monday. Operation...
Read MorePosted by Tom Heyden | Feb 21, 2011 | zSports
Juan Pablo Montoya finishes in sixth place in the historic Daytona 500 race in Florida as the new Nascar season gets underway, El Espectador reported Monday. The Colombian former Formula 1 star, now 35 years old, started the...
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