Posted by Toni Peters | Apr 2, 2011 | News
Heavy rain and fierce gales left 600 homes damaged and five people injured in the town of Nocaima, 40 miles north-west of Bogota, local media reported Saturday. Town mayor, Wilson Rojas Bohoquez told radio that “as a...
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An extradited AUC commander testified that his paramilitary group supported former president Alvaro Uribe’s 2002 presidential campaign in the south of Colombia, El Espectador reported Saturday. Guillermo Perez Alzate,...
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President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday condemned student protests and violence that have afflicted several Colombian universities in recent days and announced more police intervention. According to a presidential communique, the...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Apr 1, 2011 | News
A former congressman was arrested by the Technical Investigation Team of the Prosecutor General’s Office (CTI) for alleged “farcpolitics”, newspaper El Espectador reported Friday. Former representative for...
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Colombian NGOs have condemned the “high level” of violence against black, indigenous and poor women in a country where the female body has become a “battleground”, W Radio reported Friday. This was the...
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