With 41 candidates in local and regional elections killed, Colombians go the polls next Sunday after one of the most violent campaigns of recent years and the first with Juan Manuel Santos as president the country. The cases were documented by the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM), a private organization that collected in a report to […]
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On Monday afternoon, by the overflow of the creek Sotah, the houses of the town of Nemocón (Cundinamarca) and stopped for water, covering chairs, tables and beds to more than 20 homes in the municipality. Cundinamarca experiencing a situation of maximum rainfall alert . The overflow, which has been presented since Sunday afternoon, kept in […]
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The presidents of six public higher education institutions in Antioquia were threatened in a statement allegedly made by the FARC, in which the declared military targets continue working and teaching against the various student assemblies to protest against the reform education. Read Article
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The vice president of China’s Central Military Commission, Guo Boxiong, today began a tour that will travel in Cuba, Colombia and Peru, in response to the official visit made to their Latin American counterparts Asian country , the official Xinhua news agency reported. Guo, invited by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba and the Ministries […]
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Colombia Police seized 9 tons of marijuana in the department of Cauca (southwest), which he said belonged to the Sunday Marxist FARC guerrillas and were to be transported to Central America. The drug was found on Saturday in a house in a rural area of Corinth (Cauca) and have a black market value of $ […]
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President Juan Manuel Santos, sent his greetings of condolences to the families of soldiers killed and wounded and admitted that there were flaws in security protocols, both in attack in rural area of Tame, Arauca, and Tumaco, Nriño, the last Friday. “These facts, in Tumaco, on Friday and yesterday Arauca, which left 20 soldiers dead, […]
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Following the announcement of the arrival of Ideam La Nina phenomenon, continues to feel the fury of the second winter season in Colombia. The director of the Office of Risk Management of the Ministry of Interior, Carlos Ivan Marquez, revealed on Friday that the winter that plagues much of the country and left 35 people […]
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41 cases of leptospirosis had Barranquilla from 1 January to September 3 this year, while in the same period in 2010 registered 122, National Institute of Health (NIH). Fanny Castro, 79, resident of the neighborhood Chiquinquirá, was the second fatality that left last year’s leptospirosis in the capital of the Atlantic. This infection is caused […]
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Snow and Rebolo, two populous neighborhoods southeast of Barranquilla, have continued to be the epicenter of the underground factories of adulterated liquor, according to reports from the Metropolitan Police. The remark was made evident a couple of days ago when researchers Sijin, in coordination with the prosecutor, made operational in two houses accurate, achieving seize […]
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From this Friday until October 31 rains revive in the department, according to the CVC. The most affected municipalities are Palmira, Tuluá, Prairie, Ontario, Carthage, and Florida. The winter season is just beginning and left in the Cauca Valley 530 people homeless in the last two weeks. This was announced by the Regional Committee for […]
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Colombia and Ecuador ratified today its commitment to strengthen cooperation on border security to prevent criminals from both sides use the bilateral corridor as a backup. In this regard the Attorney General of Ecuador, Galo Chiriboga, visiting the country, told reporters that the goal is to fight together against criminals operating in the border. Read […]
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302 At the Prosecutor’s Office with assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the case of Petty Officer U.S. Navy Deion Lemar Burton, who was caught with 5.4 kilos of cocaine on 12 October in the El Dorado airport in Bogota. The arrest took place when the military, 26, and commission in Italy, was […]
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The road to the sea that was serving as alternates for the communication road between Cartagena and Barranquilla was blocked by residents of the township of Lomita Arena, Bolivar. Victims complain about the lack of attention from local authorities, following the floods suffered by rain in the boundaries between the departments of Bolívar and Atlántico. […]
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Heavy rains have destroyed homes leaving families without shelter as well as destroyed roads, El Espectador reports. Given the seriousness of the situation, the mayor, Judith Pinedo Florez flew on a helicopter to have a complete picture of the critical areas affected by the severe rains. Read Article
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According to the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development the company interested in building the luxury hotel is interested in investing in ecotourism in the Tayrona National Parl, El Espectador reports. According to their declarations, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development values and respects the ancestors and the culture of our indigenous peoples […]
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The general attorney’s diagnosis shows a waste of human capital, El Tiempo reports. Six of every ten Colombians who are employed do not have a decent job. They work on their own and most are in the informal sector, they work without a formal contract, earn less than the minimum wage and are outside the […]
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Commenting on the announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos to build a 7-star “environmentally friendly” hotel in Tayrona National Park, RCN Radio was able to establish that there are no studies for this project and that the project will have an impact on the environment. The studies to obtain the licenses to build the project […]
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The police captured 18 people for illegal mining retroexcavadoras inmovilizadas por la Policía. They said that among the transactions that took place during the weekend highlights the capture of 18 people who are linked to illegal acts. These arrests have been made official since the national government declared a military target this activity to consider […]
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Cali and Bogota top the list of cities with more crime partner, according to a report by the Institute of Legal Medicine. So far this year there have been seven cases each of these cities. Trends continue, the figure could be lower than last year. In 2010, the report of the National Reference Center on […]
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Mass African snails were discovered by the local residents of Socorro Jose Antonio Galan, glued into two lots on 19th Street this week. Because citizenship is becoming more aware of how the specimen is often proliferate rapidly to become a real plague, gave timely notice to the Police Community and Environmental Relief, which arrived on […]
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The Government reported that the second wave of rain has affected 25 departments in the country. Overflowing rivers and streams, landslides and road closures are the main consequences of rainfall. Due to difficult weather conditions, the Directorate of Traffic and Transport Police reported that five roads have a total closure by the rains. In Quindio, […]
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On Monday the river was more than five meters. The Volunteer Fire Department La Virginia (Risaralda) which monitors the level of the Cauca River as it passes through this county, on Monday and reported the level exceeds 5 meters, which means that the municipality is on orange alert.”From the 5.50 will be on red alert. […]
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Second winter season has left 28 dead, 37 wounded and 79 000 people affected. The second winter season of the year, sweeping the country for a month and a half this weekend left a tragic toll: four dead and eight missing. One of the most serious cases are presented on Saturday, on the road between […]
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Augusto Perez, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Director of the Corporation New Directions, said in a study done in 2006 by the United Nations and the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD ), “Colombia ranked first in benzodiazepine use among adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.” A product of […]
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Six of every ten Colombians who have jobs do not have a decent job. They work on their own and most are informal, have been engaged without a formal contract, earn less than the minimum and are outside the social security systems. Read Article
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced Saturday that the investigation will resume the disappearance of Colombian brothers James and Andrew Restrepo, which occurred in 1988 after being arrested by police and whose bodies were thrown presumed in the lagoon of Yambo. The announcement was made during the weekly report to work at the premiere […]
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Colombian Counternarcotics Police deployed a major operation against the business of the criminal gang, Anti-Subversive Popular Revolutionary Army of Colombia, ERPAC, whose leader is Eberto Lopez Montero, alias ‘Caracho’, El Espectador reports. According to the official report, the “mega” laboratory, located in Guaracu, Meta, was used mainly for the processing of cocaine. Read Article
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Colombian attorney aims to establish whether former officials and candidates in Antioquia, Córdoba and Chocó had link with the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc of the AUC, El Espectador reports. Read Article
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The National Student Expanded Bureau reported that the crime was part of a strategy of stigmatization, intimidation and persecution of the student movement, whose primary goal away to students of all Colombian society.The National Student Expanded Bureau (NSAIDs) in Colombia reported that the boy died on Thursday during one of the protest marches was killed, […]
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Recently, a massive, peaceful march sought to draw attention to the Venezuelan incursions into the region Northeast Front elements “Domingo Lain Sáenz ‘ELN, one of the main guerrilla organizations in Colombia. The protesters, members of neighborhood associations, peasant and labor organizations and local NGOs reported that irregular force applied “policy of extermination against the communities […]
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Colombia’s judicial police arrested 16 suspected members of a prostitution of women who acted in several departments, and a Venezuelan border town, officials said Tuesday the operation. A woman prostitute from 2009 to his daughter, now 14, is in the group arrested in the raid, which was conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation Police […]
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546 kilos of cocaine were hidden in false bottoms of two commercial vessels on the Atrato River, in the area of Tagachi in Chocó, The National Army reports. Apparently, the captures planned to take the drugs to Turbo, which would then be transported by sea to Central America and then to North America where it […]
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Indigenous peoples demand the government to avail the constitutional mandates of human rights and free, prior, and informed consent, El Espectador reports. The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) called for a march on the Panamerican Highway in order to protest against the extraction of gold in mines located in the protected zones of Canoas […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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With paint and a potato bomb, students who move to the Plaza de Bolivar attacked the policemen. The squadron attacked remains located off the premises of the Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos (Ecopetrol), in downtown Bogota. About 500,000 students in public universities in the country now entering an indefinite national strike to demand the government to […]
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The FARC intended to attack police stations located in areas of high Arborist, Candelaria and Sanfrancisco.As a result of the actions being undertaken by the authorities in the Colombian capital, and that is part of “Operation Colombia” in which they were captured late on three members of the Mobile Column of FARC Ismael Ayala, police […]
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The criminal gang would initially threaten their victim by demanding 200 million pesos (US $ 100,000) in exchange for their safety, El Espectador reports. The band was disbanded due to a lawsuit in Boyacá by one of the victims. Detainees will be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Read Article
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According to a study by Colombia’s Central Bank, the level of household debt is reaching worrying levels at the end of the first six months of this year (2011), El Espectador reports. The study says household debt is reaching similar levels to those recorded during the economic crisis of the 1990s. The report notes that […]
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The one-year investigation led the Colombian police to locate 10 members of the main structure of the Clandestine Communist Party of the FARC, known as the PC3, Caracol News reports. The police say that these suspects are directly related to the infiltration of student protests in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja, Cali and Bucaramanga. Read Article
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The night of September 1, from Dijin facilities in Bogota, deployed an impressive operation that involved over 350 police officers in three cities. Shortly before eleven o’clock at night General Oscar Naranjo gave the green light for the Special Investigation Unit gave the final blow. If they had achieved success disrupt that night, four powerful […]
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The Colombian Army found and seized Monday from a stash of 546 kilos of cocaine and arrested 8 crew of two vessels that plied the river Atrato in Chocó (northwest), sources with the institution. The cocaine was hidden in false bottoms of the boats that plied the waters of the area of the small town […]
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14 guerrillas of the FARC’s Front 33 were killed in fighting with members of the police in Norte de Santander.T he incident took place in the village Luis Vero rural Sardinata Township. Read Article
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FARC SUSPECTED IN BOMBING Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed the deaths of seven soldiers who were traveling in a vehicle to administrative work. In Palo, rural area of Caloto (Cauca), killed seven soldiers were traveling in a vehicle in administrative work, as was stated by Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón.”Here in the department of […]
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The revelation that the Argentine Facundo Molars Schoenfeld has become one of the ideologists of the FARC is the tip of the ball of the presence of more foreigners in the ranks of the largest guerrilla group in Colombia. Colombian Police confirmed that molars, 35 and known by the alias “Camilo Argentina ‘, amounted dirigenciales […]
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Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos called on congress to approve a legislation draft that seeks to give a legal ground to the process of reintegration to demobilized rebel fighters, El Espectador reports. Santos warned on Wednesday October 5, 2001 that if the project is not approved at least 25,000 reinserted rebels could join illegal groups […]
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In carrying out offensive operations in Antioquia, Meta, and Caldas, Army troops were uncovered three caches clandestine weapons, explosives and materials for the manufacture of alkaloids belonging to the Farc criminal gangs and drug trafficking.Initially, in the village gardens, city of San Francisco, Antioquia, units Mechanized Cavalry Group No. 4 ‘Juan del Corral’, located a […]
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The House of Representatives rejected on Monday October 3, 2011 a bill to reform post-secondary education in Colombia, El Tiempo reports. Colombia’s education Minister, Maria Fernanda Campo, said that the government seeks to improve the quality of higher education and to make it more accessible, especially for poor young people. She also said that the […]
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Marticela Moreno Pérez, mother of 7, was shot three times a few meters away from family members, El Universal reports. The gunmen left in a red motorcycle. One person resulted wounded in the shooting as well, Alberto Avila Julio, 24. Both were taken to a hospital in Cartagena, where the woman was pronounced dead. The […]
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Colombia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Maria Angela Holguin, reiterated Colombia’s position of creating a Palestinian state, insisting that Israelis and Palestinians must hold “direct negotiations”, El Espectador reports. According to diplomatic sources, Abbas will ask Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos to reconsider his country’s position before the Security Council of the United Nations where Colombia is […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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The environmental authorities seized the Barrancabermeja area after alarms in areas surrounding the creek and the river’s Cabezonera Sogamoso, given the high mortality of fish that is recorded in unknown place after several sacks of cement thrown into the waters of tributary. Read Article
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FARC’s Black Pearl could not make its first trip in the Colombian Pacific, El Colombiano reports. The narco-submarine was built out of fiberglass and steel and was able to navigate itself 4 to 5 feet under water and could carry up to four tons of cocaine. According to the anti-narcotics police, this is the second […]
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Assistant superintendent Aníbal Domingo Castro Arjona and patrol officer Cristian Camilo Zambrano, active members of the Police force in Cesar, were captured in Casacara and La Gloria respectively, by agents of the same Institution, El Pais Vallenato reports. The Public Prosecutor (Fiscalia) asked the Second Penal Court of Valledupar for the orders of capture against […]
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Civil servants of Invima manipulated the organization’s databases to grant illegal sanitary registries, El Tiempo reports. According to an internal investigation, there were seven cases of duplicity from registries. Some of the products the organization deals with can be utilized for criminal purposes, though no product was commercialized; however, the problem is that the registry […]
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Buenaventura is accustomed to violent death and, ultimately, increases the number of bodies, because there are vendettas between the FARC and a band called ‘the Company’, composed of former guerrillas and former paramilitaries, who decided to steal a packet of dollars (product of other packages coca), which claims ‘Mincho’, leader of the front 30. Read […]
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos will send more troops to the country’s two southern provinces Narino and Cauca following a recent surge in drug-related violence. Santos said the number of armed forces in Narino, which is home to about 50 percent of Colombia’s illicit coca production, will be increased to 3,353 from 2,780 during the […]
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Luz Lopez Morales was sentenced for the crimes of trafficking, conspiracy to commit aggravated and simple money laundering charges after accepting the prosecution charged him, as co-author. The Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Pereira was sentenced to nine years and 15 days in prison and a fine of 763 minimum monthly wages in […]
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In the past year, the complaints of farmers living in the areas of oil exploration and production in Colombia has been increasing. They do not want their territory is invaded by oil infrastructure. The protests come at a worse time for the Colombian government. State coffers need a rapid injection of income, so they expected […]
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Foreign investment in Colombia’s mining sector totaled 9.763 million pesos (2.345 million euros) between January and August over the previous year. The country’s president, expects to exceed the 2008 record when he collected more than 3,000 million euros. This represents an increase of 51% compared to same period in 2010. Thus, the Andean nation has […]
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Seven people were killed in a tragic way on Saturday and Sunday in Barranquilla, Atlántico department. Five of the victims were killed by bullets, one dagger and another died in a traffic accident. Read Article
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Driving vehicles without carrying a driver’s license is the most traffic violation committed in Cartagena. According to the Administrative Department of Traffic and Transportation Cartagena (DATT) , so far, 2011 have been imposed for this violation 5803 subpoenas to the National Traffic Code, incurred in both motorcyclists and other types of vehicles. The report of […]
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The Colombian government ordered suspended for six months on imports of livestock, meat and other products with risk of transmission of FMD from Paraguay.After the outbreak that occurred in the department of San Pedro in that country, the measure seeks to protect animal health and maintain its status today credited Colombia as FMD free, said […]
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Colombian anti-narcotics police located and neutralized a modern submersible in the small town of Condoto, Choco, in Western Colombia, reports El Esperctador. The submersible, valued at 2 million US dollars, had a capacity to transport between 4 and 5 tons of cocaine. Anti-narcotics director, Carlos Enrique Rodriguez Gonzalez noted that the operation was achieved with […]
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A soldier and four civilians are dead and six others injured Sunday evening in a shooting rampage in San Antero, Córdoba, Colombia, reports El Pais News. The four men were on two motorcycles and used small semi-automatic weapons to shoot indiscriminately to clients at a bar. The governor attributed this shooting to disputes between bandas criminales […]
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Four injured in grenade explosion in urban area of Rio Negro. In this place called the Northern Forest Rionegro, unknown men threw a grenade into a family reunion, the balance: four people injured, three have already been discharged, and one more required surgical intervention. Read Article
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Police The police received special tanks to combat not only the terrorist attacks on pipelines, but also to thieves that the steal the petroleum.Police announced this weekend that the theft of gasoline was virtually eradicated in the country. Read Article
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Factions of the FARC launched on Sunday morning five simultaneous attacks on towns in the department of Cauca, and stop time, a soldier dead, officials said. The attacks occurred in Silvia, Suárez, Siberia, and Caldono Jambaló he told reporters, Colonel Carlos Rodriguez, police chief of that department. Read Article
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The National Institute of Food and Drug Monitoring (Invima) warned about the danger of consumption of a product of Chinese origin known as Bi Yan Pian, whose use is intended to combat disorders associated with nasal congestion, rhinitis, colds and flu due to its high concentration of mercury. Read Article
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What started as an alternative to employment in some cities on the coast became, over the years a strategic ally for the crime. Thefts, murders and freight costs (under the hired killers) are common in places where the surfaced mototaxistas as a way to compensate for the absence of transportation in the suburbs of the […]
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Fifty-two people were sentenced in absentia by a court in the city of Cali for participating in a money laundering in an amount exceeding five million dollars, was officially reported Friday. The prosecution said in its website that the conviction was handed down by a criminal court of the city of Cali. The court also […]
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Tens of thousands of classified documents from Colombia’s intelligence agency have been sold to illegal armed groups, foreign governments and drug traffickers, according to the Colombian magazine La Semana. The massive sale of secret documents by agents working for the state intelligence agency, known as DAS, is the largest intelligence leak in Colombia’s history, the […]
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1. Communities of Puerto Gaitan Meta, for more than 6 years have been demanding municipal authorities, departmental, and national, as well as oil operators, the solution to a range of social, environmental, economic and employment without get any positive response. 2.Cepcolsa Spanish oil multinational, which operates the fields of Jaguar, Sitting Bull, and Cara Cara, […]
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A peasant coca plants manually eradicated died in a rural area of the department of Nariño, which borders Ecuador, reported Social Action (Presidential Assistance Agency). The government agency did not specify the circumstances in which Benjamin Llanos Gasca, 28, died.However, he explains that the farmer was killed “during the third phase of operations that advance […]
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Local authorities deported on Monday to six Colombians, two of them members of the FARC, and an American were captured this year in Venezuela, which are required in their countries of origin for the crimes of drug trafficking, kidnapping and homicide. Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami, announced Monday, from Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, […]
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Ask the taxi service by telephone and ask for plates and mobile. Taxis pirates who intercepted the call. You are choosing the route or routes not support changes unknown. Do not give out their personal data to the driver. Be suspicious if the driver by radio or cell phone alerts which route will take. if […]
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key documents that compromise national security and strategic operations of undercover life have been sold to the guerrillas, drug traffickers and foreign governments. Much of the information in this organization with the true identities of its agents, the names and trades used as fronts, the missions assigned to them, the targets that spies, the names […]
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With 39 suicides in 2010, of which 27 occurred in Cartagena and 26 so far in 2011, of which 21 have occurred in the capital of Bolívar, attempts, completions and suicidal attitudes remain a concern for health authorities of the department, according to consolidated data from the National Institute of Legal Medicine.Read Article
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Taxi drivers in Bogota are now being targeted by assailants who kidnap them and then strip their vehicles for parts. Video in Spanish
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In protest of the Colombian government’s higher education reforms, students have gathered in protest kissing each other rather than using traditional actions of protests. According to El Espectador’s video, this action contrasts the last protest against these reforms, which lead to violent conflict with the government and officials and the police.
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Escalating guerrilla terrorist had planned to perpetrate against oil and electricity infrastructure in Putumayo was unveiled by the Army, following the seizure of 30 cylinders filled with explosives and several launchers. In statements provided by the commander of Battalion No. 9 Special Energy based in La Hormiga, Colonel Leonardo Vargas Villegas, he realizes that the […]
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The FARC are not strengthened, but changed his strategy. So says a study by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, an observatory of the armed conflict in Colombia. In the report ‘The new reality of the FARC, “the NGO an assessment of the rebel group led by Alfonso Cano. And it ensures that the recent attacks […]
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UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones and Brazilian telecommunications companies and its subsidiary Oi GlobeNet today signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation. The Antiochian company president, Horacio Velez de Bedout, said that with the signing of the agreement “aims to work on issues of common interest to the companies as 4G services, TV over IP, providing technological […]
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Last July, the production of Portland cement in the country amounted to 927 thousand tons, 13.8 percent more than the same month of 2010. The Dane also features a 13 percent increase in shipments. According to the entity, the majority of shipments went to the cement trucks (28.3 percent) and marketing (8.8) with a contribution, […]
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The pastor of the remote village of Capurganá in Choco department, northwestern Colombia, Gualberto Arrieta Oviedo was killed by unknown assailants with machetes, revealed today that authorities found his body. Read Article
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A candidate for the Council of Palmira, department of Valle was killed by gunmen, while a councilman Buenaventura escaped death in a similar attack in clashes over the weekend. The council Palmira contender for the Party of National Integration, PIN, Jaine Narvaez Jose Grajales, 33, was shot to death by two men who broke into […]
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Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, said Monday that presidential orders seek to meet with their counterparts in Venezuela and Ecuador to seek a cooperative approach: “The order is dialogue with my counterparts in Venezuela, Ecuador and other nations and obviously expect to work in a cooperative attitude, that’s the attitude we have and that’s the […]
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The persistence of armed conflict exacerbates the situation of continued forced displacement of more than 1,000 members of the indigenous people living Jiw in the departments of Meta and Guaviare. His return is not possible at the moment despite the efforts of the authorities and humanitarian agencies. San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, September 6 (UNHCR) […]
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According to elmeridiandecordoba.com there is a recent pattern of millions of pesos being stolen from victims after withdrawing money from local banks. Most of the assailants appear to be on motorcycles. Read Article
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Deforestation affects the stability of soils, water quality, fish kills by catastrophic events such as avalanches and greatly diminishes the ability of the surface to control its own climate and chemical composition.The issue is currently living the Paramillo Natural Park, where the 460 000 hectares of forest that has this natural reserve, about 80 000 […]
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Elmeridianodecordoba.com.co reported that law and order situation in the department has become a source of conflict between local and national authorities, for while Gov. Martha Sáenz Correa wields a figure of 356 dead at the hands of criminal gangs in so far year, the former Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera from Bogota said at the […]
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Move beyond the Walls Campaign complaint filed with the national and international community the violation of fundamental rights to information,freedom of conscience, expression and the right to visit the political prisoners committed by the National Institute and Prison (INPEC) according to the following. For about two years the political prisoners held in the courtyard of […]
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Following the demobilization of paramilitary groups, the then government of President Alvaro Uribe had considered regained control in areas that were dominated by the paramilitaries. However, these organizations were unfolding today monopolize their structures and 21 of the 32 departments. Aupados private armies for drug trafficking violence and overflowed the shot a sense of insecurity […]
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Health agencies in Barranquilla decreed this afternoon, a red alert for measles cases in the city that already reach 4 people infected and a possible case that has not been reported. The news was confirmed by the District Health Secretary, Martha Rodriguez, who said that a single case and there is an outbreak in the […]
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The National Police who dealt crushing blow to the structures of the Southern Bloc of the FARC, captured in downtown Neiva, Cesar Polanco Cerquera, aka “Polo” or “Polanía.” The report said according to research by an interdisciplinary team of the institution, led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (DIJIN), this individual acted as […]
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Cocaine seized in maritime interdiction operation After a chase by sea and air units of the Navy and the Air Force, with support from the army and police seized 88 kilos of cocaine were transported in a wooden boat in the area of Arboletes – Antioquia, Coveñas 80 nautical miles. The boat named “Muga” was […]
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laopinion.com, reported he driver of an ambulance, health department official was discovered on Thursday afternoon while transporting 45 kilos of coca base on the road-Cucuta El Zulia. The driver, who wore a vest Medical Mission, tried to evade the roadblock set up by men of the Metropolitan Police, in Cucuta. However, after a chase was […]
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Colombia announced the destruction of 10 clandestine airstrips Colombian police on Saturday presented to the press 23 of the detainees, some of them pilots of aircraft. At least ten were clandestine airstrips used by Colombian drug organization Daniel “Loco” Barrera for sending drugs to the U.S. will be destroyed in Colombia and Venezuela, Colombian police […]
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In 2010 the 285 homicides recorded Huila, 3540 cases of interpersonal violence, domestic violence reports 2123 and 415 cases of sexual violence, figures reveal a worrying picture in the Department. This was revealed by the Institute of Legal Medicine in the report ‘Forensis 2010’, under which last year there were 17,459 homicides in the country, […]
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