For the first time in history, the government of Colombia made a contribution of USD 500 000 through the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The disbursement will be implemented next year and will be for social inclusion projects for Colombian refugees in Ecuador. According to statistics from the Ministry of Refugee Affairs, the percentage of refugees is growing every year. In 1999 the country had 277 refugees after 12 years in November 2011 that figure rose to 55,162. Read Article
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The official, public agency quoted Andes, said the crop was located in the San Lorenzo, a village in the coastal province of Esmeraldas (northwestern), inhabited by the Awa indigenous community, also present in the Colombian side. Read Article
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The National Police launched a crackdown last aparatamenteros bands in the country, especially in this time of year when families come out to enjoy muchasd end holiday of the year. In the nationwide raids were captured 41 apartamenteros, whom they were seized 27 firearms, likewise, they were immobilized 24 cars and 6 motorcycles they used […]
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Four alleged Colombian paramilitaries Caracas belonging to the band “Los Rastrojos” were seized by officials of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) of Venezuela in the state of Tachira, which borders Colombia, reported the Venezuelan News Agency (VNA). Read Article
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The top leader of the gang of “los machos” and three of his lugarteneintes, were captured in the last hours by the National Police in the department of Valle. This is known as “Penguin”, who became head of the band after falling into the hands of the authorities thirteen members of the organization last month […]
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In the operation 15 suspected members of the criminal gang ‘Los Urabeños’ Dijin were captured by the police and the prosecution in the Urabá region of Antioquia. The capture came after six months of intelligence investigations in the municipalities of Turbo, Apartado and Necoclí, and in the villages of the Three, The Two, Alto de […]
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International Gas Transportation Company, TGI, Gabriel Turbay, the estimated reserves in the western pipeline sufficient to 3 days. But it is not known how long the repair of the pipeline. According to Gabriel Turbay, a landslide destroyed 100 meters of the pipeline Mariquita Cali in the district of Padua, in the municipality of Herveo, Tolima, […]
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The Foreign Minister of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin said yesterday that there are drug cartels seeking to enter Bolivia. Although not detailed names, emphasized that these cartels have “enormous” economic resources. The Colombian Foreign Minister arrived in the country on Monday to meet with similar Bolivian, David Choquehuanca, to address various issues on the bilateral […]
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A manual with instructions for “the management of hostages” was found by Colombian security forces near the place where FARC rebels killed four soldiers who were holding hostages, regional police said Monday. The booklet, which included aid illustrated, was part of a series of documents prepared by teaching the insurgent group, told Efe Colonel Carlos […]
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Colombians recognized 207 (between 2005 and 2010) have been victims of trafficking. Human trafficking is defined by scholars as the twenty-first century slavery and the figure of a study on the magnitude of this crime in the country, conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Universidad de los Andes, released yesterday in […]
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Strong harassment occurred at about 7:00 am in the municipality of Inza, east of the Cauca, where the FARC released ‘tatucos’ against the population. Explosive ordnance fired at the police station, City Hall and a commercial sector of town, caused no injuries but damage. Read Article
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The director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Juan Gonzalo Lopez, said on National Radio that the number of burnt gunpowder during the holiday season up to 89 people, of which 69% are minors.Read Article
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The money will be used exclusively for the victims of this new wave winter. President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday at Casa de Nariño that these resources be used for humanitarian aid and all kinds of needs of those affected by this second rainy season. The Government intends that the money be transferred to the […]
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Armed groups have been created by exparamilitares expanded to much of the country and constitute the greatest threat to the State, as alerted the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “The groups that emerged after the demobilization of paramilitary organizations pose the greatest threat to the rule of law and protection […]
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A passenger violated security at Palonegro Bucaramanga airport and jumped to the platform.When a LAN Airlines plane was about to reel in one of the tracks Palonegro Airport in Bucaramanga, to travel to Bogota, a man violated airport security and reached the platform to try to prevent liftoff. Workers place and passengers of Flight 3165, […]
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A soldier and a civilian were seriously injured.The accident occurred after an explosive device detonated in the center of that municipality. When the people of Corinth celebrated the day of the candles, they were surprised by a loud explosion that besides injuring a soldier and a woman, leaving destruction in several homes. Read Article
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The Canadian mining company had already announced three investments in the country last month. Canadian miner Iamgold announced the purchase of 13.2 percent of Tolima Gold exploration company, at the latest in a series of small investment focused on the country’s gold industry. Read Article
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It currently has 140 points of Dunkin ‘Donuts and Baskin Robbins 23 in Bogota, Medellin, Cali, Pereira, Manizales, Ibague and Girardot. Miguel Merino Gordillo, president of Donucol Colombia, explained that in the immediate future, will invest 1,000 million pesos, next year with the goal of opening five stores. Will be the opportunity to venture along […]
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Charry got deported from Mexico after spending eleven years in prison for drug trafficking.This man became famous in the DMZ of the government of Andrés Pastrana to be the doctor of FARC, but also by being the liaison with Amado Carrillo ‘lord of heaven’, one of the most powerful drug traffickers on the continent. Read […]
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Tanja Nijmeijer on Wednesday granted an interview with Dutch public television. He said that illegal armed group remains strong despite the death last November of its top leader, Alfonso Cano. “The FARC go ahead without ‘Cano’, there have been many military actions after his death, which is a sign that we go ahead and that […]
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The continuous rains that have fallen in the Andean Region and the East of the country overflowed the water storage capacity of at least 8 dams.The worst situation is recorded in Antioquia where reservoirs such as the Beaches and Peñol, filling levels recorded 107% and 105% respectively.In the center of the country also filled reservoirs, […]
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The murder of Argentine Alejandro Fabian Gugliesi at the seaside resort of Guaruja Sao Paulo, which occurred on Saturday night, put the Brazilian police in a case that could be related to drug trafficking. The man, 40, was shot dead in a condominium home “Jardim Acapulco”, where he lived with a Colombian, who was also […]
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Hola magazine from Spain, published a picture in which two black women go as part of the decoration of a mansion in Cali.In a mansion of “Beverly Hills” Cali, the most powerful women of Valle del Cauca appear in a photograph. A formidable landscape is seen in the background, while two black women in uniform […]
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A tense situation occurs in the morning on Tuesday in the municipality of Morales, department of Cauca. The FARC attacked, from 6:15 am, police station with gunfire and tatucos. So far the balance is a soldier wounded, the day of the great mobilization in the country against kidnapping and violence by illegal armed groups. Read […]
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For the leaders of Colombia coffee, leadership now has the Huila in the national coffee scene is the result of work between leaders, producers and growers. The specialty coffee produced in the region are applauded in Colombia. Fernando Castro, president FEDECAFE Steering Committee, said the outlook is flattering grain Opita ground. The exaltation that made […]
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Three children and ten adults were injured, including a policeman and a civilian died, when a car bomb exploded near a police station in the border city of Maicao in the department of La Guajira. Read Article
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He was identified as Jocannes Huggel Matias, who on Thursday afternoon was found in Lake Calima input 4. Colonel Julian Gonzalez, commander of the Valley Police said vital signs weak, so he was taken to St George Hospital in the municipality of Calima Darien, where he died.”Once the judicial inspection of the body in her […]
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Observation Mission (EOM) of Colombia denounced the killing of the coordinator of this organization in the southern department of Putumayo, Eladio Yascual, by strangers.The coordinator of the MOE was shot by two men while enjoying a family outing in the town of Mocoa, 600 kilometers south of Bogota, said Tuesday MOE sources in the capital.Read […]
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Hundreds of residents of the canton Tulcan Carchi province, made this morning, Friday, a dry run for the release of four Ecuadorians presumed to be in the hands of Colombian guerrillas.Most were kidnapped in the area of Carchi Marino border with Colombia, which until 3600 the record held since 1994. Read Article —————————————————— DO YOU […]
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A heavy downpour on Friday night caused flooding in Usme south of Bogota, which affected a large number of vehicles and service Transmilenio.ccording to relief agencies overflow of the stream selfless Trumpet whole area near the portal road Transmilenio Usme.Rainfall throughout the area dedicated to Doña Juana landfill in which several houses were affected. Read […]
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The authorities’ strategy is now to go in search of vulnerable populations, which are part of the gravediggers and cemetery workers. The health secretary Cali, Elidia Gomez said that the lack of security features have emerged compromised. Read Article
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Local police say served as an ideologue of the rebel front.The Bishop Pedro Pablo Reinoso Marin was arrested at the Minor Seminary of Manizales in joint action with the Attorney General, said Col. Rafael Antonio Mesa, acting commander of the Police in Caldas department which is the capital city. Read Article
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The clashes occurred Sunday night in the canyon country of Tetuan, the township area of San Antonio (South of Tolima). The Sixth Brigade, based in Ibague, reported that the security lent subversive alias ‘Marlon’, leader of the front 21 and were surprised when they planned to install epxlosivos to attack the security forces. Read Article
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The Army announced who surrendered voluntarily to military units in the south. According to the official report, there are three men and a woman who appeared before troops Military Police Battalion No. 3 ‘General Eusebio Borrero Acosta’, attached to the Third Brigade of the Army. Read Article
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The Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, told RCN Radio the Night to his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, privately described as “a barbaric act” the killing of four hostages by the FARC. In dialogue with RCN Radio, Maria Angela Holguin said that the meeting of Hugo Chavez and Juan Manuel Santos became clear the commitment […]
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A photo taken by a commissioner of police, caused a stir because he sees the face of a girl. The photograph was taken with the camera of a cell on the morning of Monday, when several police Bosa Station were on duty.Within hours of the morning and review photos in uniform were met with surprise […]
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Another of the soldiers was injured after falling into a minefield. The incident occurred in the village of La Onda, rural zone of Tumaco (Nariño). The fact was attributed to Daniel Aldana mobile column of the FARC, which operates in the Pacific region of Nariño, although there are also regional paramilitary groups and drug traffickers. […]
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The Colombian government’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIAF) is asking that all gold buyers, refineries, exporters and importers are legally required to report all their transactions. The request comes as senior officials warn that the surging price of gold is making trade in the metal an attractive option for large-scale money-laundering operations. Foreign mining companies are […]
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Florence. Troops from Mobile Brigade No. 13, assigned to the Sixth Division, located 36 land mines planted around coca crops in an area of 280 meters, which avoided the eradication or destruction of illicit crops. The installation of explosive ordnance irrational threatened the life of peasants who travel around the village of the municipality Bold […]
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Thanks to the intelligence work of the National Army troops of the Sixth Brigade in coordination with the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office, captured five individuals who were part of the network of the gang 21 of the FARC in the department Tolima. The military action took place simultaneously in the town of […]
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As part of offensive operations by Army troops in Norte de Santander, Cauca, Putumayo and Tolima, were found and destroyed in a controlled number of improvised explosive devices, installed by terrorist factions of the FARC and the ELN. The first military action occurred in the village of La Rivera, municipality of Puerto Asis, Putumayo, where […]
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Colombian Marxist rebels plotted to sell uranium to Venezuela in the belief that they would pass it on to “friends from distant lands”, according to leaked emails. The emails were recovered from the computer of Raul Reyes, a former commander with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) who was killed by the country’s army […]
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Colombia’s army says it has shut down the main radio station operated by the Farc rebels, after 15 years on air. Troops captured transmitters and other broadcast equipment when they overran a guerrilla camp in the Meta region. Read Article
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In his first message since taking the helm of Latin America’s longest-fighting rebels, new FARC chief Timoleon Jimenez, alias Timochenko, Sunday warned Colombia’s president: “we all have to die, (Juan Manuel) Santos, every one of us.” “Nobody is going to escape that fact… Some for one cause, and others for another,” Timochenko said in a […]
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The Superintendent of Notaries and Registries, Jorge Enrique Velez said on National Radio that at this moment working on the recovery of 1,500 hectares of land that had been stolen from the Tayrona Natural Park for about 20 years. Read Article
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has revealed that three months ago his predecessor and political ally, Alvaro Uribe, does not answer the calls, perhaps by the strong criticism that the exmandatario has aired in recent days against the security policy the present government and its relations with Ecuador and Venezuela. Read Article
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A total of 2962 children, who were part of illegal armed groups in Colombia, were demobilized in the last nine years, revealed today the Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón. According to figures from the Program of Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilized (PADH) of the Government, in these 9 years, a total of 24,303 demobilized […]
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The family of Sincelejo merchant, John Alexander Mejia Gallego, extradited in May this year the United States, reported on his death in a Florida prison, and denounced the lack of medical care by the system, as responsible. John Alexander Mejia, 29, law student at a university in the capital of Sucre, was captured in May […]
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The three soldiers were shot when they spotted a boat carrying fuel tanks presumably, said on Wednesday the Ministry of Defense of Ecuador. The incident occurred at 06.10 local time (11.10 GMT), when the patrol was on a river control at the intersection of the Putumayo and San Miguel. The crew spotted the boat did […]
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Under the motto “just want to be free ‘, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, presented the new campaign to prevent recruitment of children and adolescents by illegal armed groups. A study by the Program of Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized with support from the International Organization for Migration, the 24,303 members of illegal armed groups demobilized […]
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The Navy rescued 30 fishermen near Nicaraguans who were abandoned by the ship “Marco Polo”, with a flag of that country, while conducting illegal fishing in Colombian waters. Read Article
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It is estimated that each year are killed between 54 million and 113 million 600 thousand snakes. The main threats to the snakes are killing, habitat destruction, road accidents and illegal trafficking. Read Article
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Jose Carvajal Patiño, who had at least thirteen years in the Farc and is currently serving as the second leader of the front ‘Antonio Nariño’, which has influence in Bogotá and surrounding areas. Patiño Carvajal, known by the alias of ‘Alda’, is linked in the investigations being conducted by the attacks against Blockbuster video store […]
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has warned the new leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry, alias ‘Timoleon Jimenez’ or ‘Timoshenko’, which will suffer the same fate as his predecessor, Guillermo León Saenz, ‘Alfonso Cano’. “I tell the new ‘number one’ of the FARC soon or it will […]
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A report from the center of security and democracy of the Sergio Arboleda University, reveals that the abduction recorded an increase of 10% compared to 2010, from 209 cases to 229 in 2011. Read Article
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO) nearly 18 million people worldwide suffering from Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, an infectious disease that causes changes in the skin and eye damage that can lead to blindness.In America, this disease is endemic in six countries and more than 500 thousand people at risk of infection. […]
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In Colombia, more than 6 percent of the population suffers from or is at risk of suffering, which means that 1 million 200 thousand and 1 million 500 thousand people are affected. Yadira Villalba, an endocrinologist and president of the Colombian Association of Endocrinology, indicated that an early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of type 2 […]
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Dijin director of police, General Carlos Ramiro Mena, said that this year have been captured around 10 thousand 500 people were engaged in theft and extortion of merchants around the country. 24 criminal gangs have also been dismantled.
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The presidents of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, will meet on December 19 in Quito to discuss, among other issues, security in the long common border shared by the two South American nations, has confirmed this Wednesday Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin. Read Article
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The Government started debugging mining rights have been granted in protected areas such as wilderness and national parks.The director of the Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining (Ingeominas), Oscar Paredes Zapata, revealed that he ordered the evacuation of all activity on the Natural Park Yaigojé Apaporis (Amazon and Vaupés), for which a permit was granted […]
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Security and Democracy Centre also ensures that military forces reduce their operations. “The floor of ‘Alfonso Cano’ should not obscure the complex and paradoxical situation of security in Colombia , however, that continues to fall slowly murder, guerrilla actions increase, the operations of the armed forces and most reduced urban safety indicators are deteriorating. ” […]
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Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, alias “Timochenko,” the new leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), belongs to the “hardliners” of the organization. According to the statement that the organization spread through the Bolivarian Press Agency (ABP), the new commander-up is required to continue “the strategic plan to the seizure of power to the people.” […]
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So said Wednesday the Armed Forces commander, General Alejandro Navas.The officer warned that if the new leader of the FARC is in the territory of another country, would go to diplomatic mechanisms to seek his arrest. “If you are in another country and we had knowledge through military intelligence, would come to my superior officer, […]
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Consumers may have relief, for food imports could reduce inflation.Upon entering into force the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, ratified by the Congress of that country on Wednesday, opening the door for families to have alternatives ‘gringo’ to milk, chicken, chicken and the egg to the extent that will gradually lowering import […]
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The affected regions are Antioquia and Choco in the north, Caldas, Tolima and Quindio located in the central west of Valle and Nariño, Southwest, whose municipalities are facing serious risks of landslides and floods in the rivers flows The intense winter living in Colombia has forced authorities to declare a red alert in seven of […]
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The narcotics police destroyed 24 laboratories for processing cocaine base belonging to criminal gangs and guerrillas of the FARC and ELN, the official said on Monday. General Luis Alberto Perez, commander of the Narcotics Police, said at a news conference that the laboratories were located in the northern departments of Antioquia, Bolivar, Cordoba and Sucre, […]
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In a case reminiscent of the movie Avatar, a tree symbolic to the Cofán people of southern Colombia is threatened by construction of a military base. The base is the latest in a string of incursions that have squeezed the Cofán into a smaller and smaller area in the Guamuez Valley region of Putumayo, near […]
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The President Juan Manuel Santos, highlighted the results achieved by the institution in the fight against the guerrillas, criminal gangs and crime in the past 15 months. According to the president, from the August 7 last year the police have captured 1,247 fighters in total, and stressed that police operations have been neutralized as an […]
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The peaceful day of protest by workers of the state oil degenerated into riots in Barrancabermeja and Cartagena, leaving a toll of 26 people injured, three of them seriously. The employees, alleging breach of employment agreements, called a paralysis of 24 hours nationwide. In Barrancabermeja, around 9 am, clashed with riot squads of police throwing […]
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The alleged seller was arrested at the Mall Hayuelos when carrying, authorities say fake drugs for patients of HIV / AIDS. On Tuesday night October 18, 2011, a man was captured in Bogotá a person of 43 years that supposedly marketed fake drugs for patients with HIV / AIDS. According to Major Jose Luis Palomino, […]
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Twenty Colombian tourists were eating food poisoning apparently were in poor condition during a visit to the spa Atacames Ecuador (northwest and near the border with Colombia), on Tuesday reported a medical source. Foreigners were admitted to a hospital emergency de Atacama, where tables were rehydrated after suffering vomiting and diarrhea, said Dr. Diana Santillán […]
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The Mayor of Medellin, Alonso Salazar, reported that two carriers of the northwest of the city have relations with criminal gangs of drug traffickers. “Are you complaining about a strong pressure from the majority owners, through criminal groups to bind, the other owners to sell their vehicle fleet”, said the president. Read Article
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Another student ITID of Soledad Vargas José Miguel Noriega, 14, who is in ninth grade, was hospitalized on November 2 in the Clinical Prevention, with symptoms similar to two other students of the institution. His father Jose Noriega said that the October 26 school received a call informing him that he had to go pick […]
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The death of alias “Alfonso Cano” has been described as the heaviest blow they have received the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). However, experts on the subject Colombian rule out that the attack was the final blow on the guerrilla group in the midst of great uncertainty, struggle to be reconfigured.Indeed, yesterday cleared the […]
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Although the facade was a modest business printing of flyers and calendars, in fact it was one of the most powerful dedicated illegal printing counterfeit U.S. dollars and documents. During the raid conducted at the place, located in the neighborhood of Las Acacias of Suba, the DAS managed the seizure of more than two million […]
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Ministry of Health of Bogotá assumes cost of this program, amounting to 3,500 million pesos. About 14,000 girls, from fifth grade, the public and private schools in the towns of Fontibon Engativá and San Cristobal that day will benefit from vaccination against this virus that causes cervical cancer. Each dose of this vaccine costs 150,000 […]
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According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, Dane, revealed yesterday, exports in September amounted to U.S. $ 4,481.8 million, while in the same month last year the amount was U.S. $ 3,291.2 million. The 56.3% increase in traditional exports from U.S. $ 1,968.3 million in September 2010 to U.S. $ 3,075.6 million in […]
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The Navy reported yesterday the seizure, 50 miles off the coast of Cartagena, a semisubmersible capable of loading up a ton of cocaine. The ship’s captain, Andrew Vasquez, Chief of Naval Force in the Caribbean, said the seizure was possible thanks to a joint operation between the navies of the United States and Colombia. Read […]
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BBC reported that Defense Minister of Colombia, Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed in the early hours of Saturday at a news conference in Bogota the death of Alfonso Cano, top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). According to Finch, the guerrilla leader of 63 years died after a bombing in a mountainous region […]
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The El Niño phenomenon triggered contagion figures of classic dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever in Antioquia. This was reported the Health Office, who said that while in January 2009 showed 166 cases of dengue fever in the department, so far are 2010 and 420. “At the moment we are not going to declare a health […]
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In a letter to Justice Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra, Jose Miguel Vivanco requests protection for those who have given statements against the president Alvaro Uribe.In a letter to Justice Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra, director of Human Rights Watch, José Miguel Vivanco, expressed concern about the safety of P aul Hernan Garcia and Juan Guillermo Sierra […]
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Following a three-week trial, a federal jury in New York City convicted a top international arms dealer, Viktor Bout, yesterday for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) — a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Colombia. The trial revealed that the weapons were to […]
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A camp was destroyed and two narco-terrorists suspected of belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were arrested as the result of two clashes between units of the Panamanian National Border Service (Senafront) and Colombian irregulars. The clashes took place near the Tuira River in the jungle community of Madugandí, in the province […]
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The country does not reach its goal of producing 9 million bags of 60 kilos in 2011 due to rain and rust.This was admitted on Thursday Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo. ‘The effect of rust and the effect of winter results in lower coffee production to 8 million bags will arrive, but then what is […]
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As of Tuesday, a brand new cab service Will Be in the city operating, one geared Exclusively Towards women. May request to customers Female Fem Taxi At Any time, day or night, and travel Safely on the city’s streets. The Idea Came from the private sector, backed by But Being is the Secretariat for Women […]
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Total support college students were calling for the withdrawal of the Congress of the law reform bill 30, 1992, at the hearing of political control that Senator Alexander López cited to know the reasons that the community has to reject the proposal that was filed by the Government. For more than two hours, the Education […]
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The military have the activation of a pump house by FARC guerrillas in Puerto Toledo area known as the municipality of Puerto Rico (Meta). The fact he left ten people injured. Troops of the Omega Joint Task Force attributed this to the Front 43 of FARC who have activated an explosive device in a dwelling […]
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At the end of election day, the Attorney General received a total of 155 complaints nationwide about possible election crimes or difficult to exercise the right to vote for logistical reasons. Of these 140 were for complaints regarding the conduct of the elections, while 15 were questions about voter registration and polling place.Discriminated Public Ministry […]
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In just twelve hours, Hector Salcedo Torrenegra, aka Rambo, killed five people in Cartagena and Barranquilla. The offender, aged 21, is identified as the most bloodthirsty killer in the service of criminal gang ‘Los Rastrojos’ in the Eroica. His extensive criminal record including, police, murder, theft, illegal possession of firearms and conspiracy. Read Article
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The authorities confirmed the arrest of two persons belonging to the criminal gang ‘Los Urabeños’ among those arrested are known as “Lucho”, second leader of the organization, accused of being the perpetrator of the disappearance and subsequent murder of 10 people on 24 April in the municipality of Sopetrán. Read Article
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Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900. THREE VOLUME SET [Hardcover] – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Joanne Pillsbury (Recording Time- 01:31:16 ) Recorded October 28, 2011. Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press (2008) – Published in Collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. PURCHASE BOOK:Guide to […]
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Declared today, the Green Alert Antioquia hospital as emergency response plan to accompany the electoral exercise next Sunday October 30. In addition, in coordination with the Administrative Department for Prevention, Care and Disaster Recovery-DAPARD, were put in place contingency plans for health emergencies winter and criminal acts, to respond to emergencies, emergencies and disasters that […]
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There are two soldiers are missing in rural area of Caldono. The incident occurred at 11:15 am on Friday, when the troops landed at the village of La Palma in Caldono, to register a FARC camp that was bombed. According to General Miguel Ernesto Perez Guarnizo, commander of the Third Army Division, the troops entered […]
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The National Police intercepted a shipment of 300 kilos of cocaine of high purity which belonged to the gang of ‘combo’. The drugs were hidden in a compartment immersed in the cooling system of a tourist bus. Upon inspection the bus, DIJIN staff discovered a mechanism by which packets of cocaine were driven one after […]
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This phone works with the new BlackBerry OS 7. The country is offered by the operator Comcel.Six months after being introduced on the BlackBerry World 2011 in Orlando (USA). Comcel and Research In Motion (RIM) launched on Thursday in Colombia the new smartphone BlackBerry Bold 9900. This is the thinnest BlackBerry market (10.5mm) and the […]
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A hot dog length of 273.5 meters, developed in the Colombian city of Barranquilla, became the bread and hot dog world’s longest. So far the world’s largest dog “recognized by Guinness World Records was prepared last year in Asuncion, Paraguay, with 230 meters long, “said the electronic edition of the newspaper El Heraldo of that […]
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Today marks 23 days of protests led by the Truckers Association of Colombia (ACC) and the sectional Ipiales Intergremial Border Committee amid allegations of the transport sector in Ecuador against Colombia load coordinators settled in Tulcán. The measure prevents the entry of trucks loaded Ecuador to Colombia, which at the moment is under police custody […]
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Serious complaints about alleged threats from the self-styled criminal band ‘La Cordillera’ have been given in Pereira, where they assure that the members of this criminal group are forcing citizens to withdraw neighborhoods political propaganda. So says the senator and president of the Party of the U in Risaralda, Carlos Enrique Soto, who had expressed […]
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Although the Navy considers the semi-submersibles and “submarines” to transport cocaine and heroin as “death chambers” drug dealers every day looking for new technologies that allow them to circumvent national and international authorities. In 1993, the intelligence services of the Navy laid bare the first semi-submersible used to transport cocaine, Much time has passed and […]
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Emerging criminal gangs forcing shop owners to buy their liquor. The extortion and even threaten them with death. This business allows them to finance other criminal activities. A study by the University of Antioquia, released by El Tiempo revealed that these criminal groups from Colombia promoted the sale of adulterated drinks. “The shopkeepers and traders […]
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