Posted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 27, 2012 | News
Colombia’s inspector general fired the administrative head of the Senate for unfairly awarding a $3 million contract to remodel the senate chambers, local media reported Friday. Omar Velasquez manipulated public documents...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 27, 2012 | News
Colombia’s president congratulated the country’s 104 athletes competing in the London Olympic Games Friday. “You are the hope of Colombia,” President Juan Manuel Santos said in a phone call to a dozen...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 27, 2012 | News
A Colombian general on Friday denied media reports that 3,000 more troops would arrive in Bogota to bolster security. General Gabriel Pinilla, commander of the Bogota-based 13th Brigade, told W Radio, “this is not true. We...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 25, 2012 | News
Rebel group the ELN may be behind the kidnappings of two women working with oil contractors in northeastern Colombia, police told local media Wednesday. On Tuesday armed men dressed in civilian clothes kidnapped journalist Elida...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jul 25, 2012 | News
Colombia’s U Party on Wednesday suspended one of its senators who has been arrested on charges of money laundering and real estate fraud. The Supreme Court accused Sen. Dilian Francisca Toro of buying several houses from...
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