Santos visits escaped FARC hostage
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos visited a police officer Sunday who escaped his FARC captors after being held for over 12 years. Santos visited Sergeant Luis Alberto Erazo Maya who…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos visited a police officer Sunday who escaped his FARC captors after being held for over 12 years. Santos visited Sergeant Luis Alberto Erazo Maya who…
Thirty minors have broken out of a juvenile rehabilitation center in southern Bogota, Caracol TV reported Monday. The youths waited until their professors were away for a moment, and escaped through…
Colombia’s Technical Investigation Team (CTI) has captured a FARC leader who had escaped from custody 11 years earlier. Guillermo Garcia Salazar, who was head of the FARC’s urban Antonio Nariño…
An e-mail found on the computers of deceased FARC military head “Mono Jojoy” says that two police hostages escaped from FARC captivity in 2009, but were recaptured a month later. President…
The Colombian army evacuated 30 U.S., British, Polish and Mexican tourists trapped by a landslide in the northern part of the Sierra Nevada, near the Caribbean beach town Santa Marta, close…
A leader of the infamous “Office of Envigado” gang escaped from house arrest in Bogota, according to Colombian prison authority, INPEC, although officials claim not to know the date of…
The Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) denied responsibility for the escape of a convicted gang leader from house arrest in Medellin, and blamed prison authority INPEC. “If prisoners escape, that…
Colombia’s national prison authority (INPEC) on Monday denied responsibility for the escape from house arrest of the former leader of Medellin paramilitary group the “Office of Envigado,” Daniel Alejandro Serna,…