Posted by Toni Peters | Mar 23, 2011 | News
The government introduced a bill to provide legal defense for members of the security forces accused of crimes, El Espectador reported Wednesday. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, who introduced the initiative to the House of...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Mar 23, 2011 | News
The Comptroller General’s Office has started a tax audit of members of the board of directors for Industria de Licores del Valle (the Valle del Cauca Liquor Industry) and its former bosses for alleged losses of state money...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Mar 23, 2011 | zSports
Members of Colombia’s national soccer team were robbed at their hotel in Madrid, El Espectador reported Wednesday. “They came into several rooms in the hotel (Husa Princesa) while we were training to rob us and took...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Mar 22, 2011 | Lite
Two buffalo had a brief escape from a Bogota slaughterhouse but neither could avoid the inevitable, reported El Tiempo Tuesday. The bovine beasts escaped from San Martin abattoir in the west of the Colombian capital and charged...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Mar 22, 2011 | News
The U.N. calls for Colombia to criminalize discrimination against Afro-Colombians on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Spanish news agency EFE reported. “Unfortunately racial...
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