Posted by Tom Heyden | Feb 10, 2011 | zSports
Soccer team Atletico Nacional’s hardcore supporters group has been banned from attending any matches at Bogota’s El Campin stadium for six months, El Tiempo reported Thursday. “Los del Sur,” a group who...
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Colombia’s Supreme Court dismisses an appeal to restore Piedad Cordoba to her former post in the Senate, El Espectador reported Wednesday. Former Senator Piedad Cordoba is barred from holding public office for 18 years...
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A top official from the Bogota comptroller’s office resigned his post Tuesday following accusations of corruption against his boss, Miguel Angel Moralesrussi, RCN Radio reports. Carlos Enrique Silgado, the deputy director...
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Senator Juan Fernando Cristo says that Colombians who have suffered in the conflict should be entitled to state compensation even if they have relatives who are guerrillas. Cristo, who is the project coordinator of the Victims...
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Directors of construction firm the Nule Group repeat their corruption allegations against Bogota politicians, while the inspector general rules that their incriminating tape recording is legally admissable as evidence, Caracol...
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