The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, confirmed that Spain offered a radar in 2008 to control the border after Colombia’s attack on a FARC base in its territory, but on condition that coordinates with the Colombian armed forces, so rejected it. The offer was disclosed today in a leaked cable from WikiLeaks to Ecuadorian newspaper […]
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RCN Radio De La Noche, experts in national security issues agreed on the need of Colombia to organize the issue of intelligence and counterintelligence to prevent each force make media show with every action it undertakes. Read Article
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The governments of Venezuela and Colombia are making progress in a legal framework to lay the institutional foundations for bilateral trade in view of looming Venezuela’s withdrawal from the Andean Community (CAN). Read Article
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This balance between the need for secrecy and it is breached which could be broken with the new intelligence law has just been filed in Congress, which raised a cloud of dust among journalists, it provides for increased penalties for “disclose” classified information. This law is so new. In fact, it is a revised version […]
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Lara Muñoz Gemner alias ‘Lucio 40’ accused of being the leader of the FARC’s Front 22, which operates in La Macarena and Vistahermosa, – was arrested by the Police Sijin in suburbs of the capital of Meta, near of a chain store on the road that leads to Catama. Read Article
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A man was the victim of a gang of robbers who stripped him of $ 3 million 200 thousand, represented in money and jewels was supplied after scopolamine, popularly known as burundanga. This substance, which experts say causes the body a state of passivity and complacency, was used by criminals to steal all belongings of […]
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A young man identified as Cesar Callejas Ricardo Peña, is the latest victim of poisoning reported by scopolamine in Barranquilla, the novelty of which was moved under its effects, to Bogota. Read Article
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Among the many crises competing for international attention, the ethno-territorial conflict plaguing the Afro-Colombian population on Colombia’s Pacific Coast is barely making headlines. Afro-Colombians have been systematically displaced from their communities, often violently, at the hands of guerillas and neo-paramilitary groups since the mid-1990s. Yet few Colombians, let alone foreigners, are paying attention. Read Article
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The Minister of Interior and Justice of Colombia, Germain Vargas Lleras, the Army reported that prison authorities prevented him from inspecting a military prison located on a base of the center-west. The authority made the revelation in the midst of a controversy following an article published in the magazine “Semana”, according to which there have […]
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The Risk Management Division launched an alert moderate to high in the departments of Antioquia, Nariño, Cauca and Santander for probable landslides. The alert was ordered by the high risks and vulnerability of these regions of landslides as a result of rains in various parts of the departments in the last hours, and have been […]
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The inhabitants of the districts described as disturbing the affected security in the area, due to the presence of the guerrillas. “Since last year, when he left here the Mobile Brigade 20, the FARC came back and now feel very afraid,” said one citizen, who preferred anonymity. Read Article
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The inspection body referred to ongoing reviews of producers indicating that the whey is a product equivalent to milk. Read Article
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He pretended he was a good Samaritan and managed the supply of money to create a company in Cali. More than a million and half dollars that the U.S. government had given to the provision of educational and health services in the state of Oregon (USA.) Ended up financing a commercial shrimp in Cali (Valle). […]
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Authorities are collecting information to identify the most dangerous in the country. Incredible but true. Several holes have been guilty of eight people have been killed so far this year in the country, and that 31 have been injured in 25 traffic accidents. Read Article
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Alleged Venezuelan drug trafficker Walid Makled, who is arrested in Colombia pending extradition, said in a TV interview that top Venezuelan military officers and government officials were involved in his businesses. Read Article
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Juan Manuel Santos president on Saturday denounced the infiltration of violent groups in public universities, after public order disturbances caused this week, during protests by students in some schools. Says there is a clear strategy to organize groups of hooded men to attack the police with explosives and then posing as victims of police authorities. […]
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Google Colombia carried out a study concerning the manner of the Colombian company by D’Alessio Iro. According to the results, the Colombians would rather spend time at the computer than watching television. For the study surveyed nearly 500 people, of which over 80% said that enters the web several times during the day, however, the […]
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Battalion, attached to the Twenty-third Brigade in coordination with the CTI of Pasto, reported the capture of José Eulogio Narcizo Fuelantala, aka ‘Joe’ or ‘The Squib’ up arms dealer and supplier of the ELN in Nariño. Accused believed to be supplying arms to ELN from Ecuador – He is also known as ‘the squid” – […]
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The serious injuries sustained in the blast inside the University of Nariño, caused his death the student Andrés Arteaga Ceballos, doctors confirmed the Emergency Unit of Hospital San Pedro de Pasto, where the boy was sent by relief agencies who attended the emergency. Read Article
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The community members asked that these cases of sexual discrimination are investigated. She is the second member of the LGBT community who is murdered in the last 15 days in violent circumstances at the hands of strangers in the town of Santa Fe. Read Article
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Chamber of Commerce said it increased from 37 percent to 49 percent between 2009 and 2010. The figure is contained in the victimization survey and the perception of insecurity, which at that time the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá was the last weekend of November and during the first three weekends of December 2010. Read […]
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Colombian exports in 2010 totaled 8.9 million bags, while for domestic consumption is imported 579,733 bags (34,784 tonnes). And although this is only 6.9 percent of export volume accounts for 44.5 percent of domestic consumption, according to the manager of the Federation of Coffee Growers, Luis Genaro Muñoz, was 1.3 million bags ( 78,000 tons) […]
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A serious terrorist threat to the town of Tello, denounced the mayor of the town, Lácides Díaz. Diaz revealed that the front 17 of the Farc extorting builders of a school in the town, in the north of Huila. Read Article
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The management of National Parks of Colombia require the presentation of the card that proves to be vaccinated against yellow fever. The scheme will apply in 36 areas of the park system. Among the parks where the card is required include the National Natural Park Gorgona National Natural Park Los Farallones de Cali, Sanctuary Malpelo […]
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has urged the Government of Colombia to investigate death threats against organizations defending human rights made by the illegal group ” Black Eagles”. Read Article
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A dynamite attack on the FARC guerrillas in Colombia’s northern border with Venezuela cut off supplies of gas from the first country to second by the product binational Antonio Ricaurte, said Sunday the regional authorities. The blast, followed by a fire , occurred on Saturday night Carraipía rural, village border town of Maicao, in the […]
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The authorities maintain a warning by the upsurge of insecurity in the premises of the Universidad del Valle in which he denounced as the rector of the institution, Ivan Ramos, have infiltrated hooded gunmen threatening to the integrity of teachers and administrative staff. Read Article
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In RCN Radio advocate for victims of drunk drivers, Maria Bottagisio, said that in the legislative agenda of Congress is not a priority to punish people for driving while intoxicated causing tragedies. Read Article
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he Secretariat of Government of ordered restriction on the movement of children in six districts of Bogotá (Bosa, Fontibón Engativá, Martyrs, Antonio Nariño, Ciudad Bolívar), from 11:00 pm until 5:00 am. Read Article
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Adventure turned to tragedy Tuesday when a bungee cord snapped on the Miraflores bridge in central Colombia, killing a tourist. “At that moment you heard a silence super ugly, and this bridge became hell as organizers ran down the bridge to assist him. Everyone started to scream, I called an ambulance that never arrived,” said […]
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Up to two million pesos is the approximate cost to spy and find out if your partner is cheating. Bogota has a record of 144 private detective agencies who promise absolute confidentiality, expertise and evidence through videos, photographs and chat conversations or cell phone. Read Article
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A UK citizen from Wales was drugged and robbed after an assailant(s) drugged the victim with scopalmine. According to Caracol Radio, David Thomas Edwards was travelling from Bogota to Cali on a bus when he was rendered defenseless after being drugged. The suspect(s) made away with his belongings. The victim required hospitalization in Ibague and […]
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Were caught red handed six people allegedly involved in the crime of unlawful use of natural renewable resources. The action of the National Police on the road ahead of the municipality of San Marcos leads to the town of Majagual. At the same time, the armed forces seized more than 250 blocks of timber.
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Peruvian President Alan Garcia announced on Sunday plans for Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Chile to create a new economic bloc, in an interview with El Tiempo. Garcia told the Colombian newspaper that plans are in place for the leaders of each nation to meet in Lima on May 2 in order to set out a […]
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Bars were located indugel 288, 78 detonators and 100 meters of safety fuse. Troops of the Fifth Brigade, assigned to the Second Division, and coin the Santander branch of DAS support, reached the location and subsequent destruction of 288 indugel bars, which, apparently, were to be used in the exploitation of illegal mining. Read Article
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The capture was made by the police and the army on Thursday night in the village of La Selva, the municipality of Rovira, located one hour by car from Ibague. This is Rubiela Mary Rubio and her husband Gualteros Argemiro Mendoza Cuellar. Read Article
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In recent days have reported six murders in this town north of the department. On Wednesday, at 6:00 am, Ayala was shot and killed Pablo Cesar Moreno when he arrived home. Read Article
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Authorities confirmed that the number of injured is 17, and continue the rescue work. Among those killed is a child of 12, who is a resident of the village of Limon High (place of accident). The child went with her mother to rescue the injured, as rescue workers led to a landslide buried him. Read […]
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Colombia has used unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, since 2006 to detect movement of the FARC and drug shipments, according to a leaked official cable published by WikiLeaks. One of the systems mentioned is the ScanEagle of Boeing. The document collected by the newspaper El Espectador, said that unmanned aerial systems arrived in the country in […]
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The stolen volume increased from 189 barrels per day in 2009 to 369 barrels per day in 2010. In the Shareholders of Ecopetrol, the company reported a 95.2% increase in the theft of crude to its transport networks. The company said this was due to increase in the eradication of illicit crops, to activities related […]
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This was announced by Minister of Mines and Energy Shot Carlos Noriega, who said that the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) has signed contracts Colombia Round 2010 with different companies. Last year the government awarded 78 blocks in this bidding process to undertake the drilling of fields in different basins of the country. Read Article
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Unilever also announced today that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Colgate-Palmolive’s laundry detergent brands in Colombia for US$215m. This transaction is subject to regulatory approval and the completion of the Sanex disposal to Colgate-Palmolive. Michael Polk, Unilever’s President Categories, said: “We are pleased to be divesting Sanex in what we consider […]
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The Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo, reiterated that the continuity of the cold wave is affecting crops of bananas, coffee and cocoa by the presence of pests. Read Article
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The Colombian government has opened an international bidding process on a rail project that could facilitate 6mn metric tonnes/yr of coal shipments by 2013. The project includes construction of the Carare railway and rehabilitation of the existing Central railway into one line, the Carare railway’s general manager told Argus today. The government aims to grant […]
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The representative to the House for the Party of the U, Guillermo Rivera, revealed that there are over three thousand men belonging to the BACRIM in Colombia, which are mostly made up of minors. Rivera said that the departments most affected by criminal gangs in order are: Córdoba, Urabá, Magdalena and Putumayo. Read Article
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The authorities are moving in the investigations to ascertain the whereabouts of the members of this band that uses this substance to subdue victims and steal their belongings. An organized network that uses scopolamine as a method to subdue their victims so that they could dock, would be responsible for several thefts in recent days […]
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On Monday police arrested Angie Villada Higuita, Miriam Yurani Darlin Iral and Silvana Giraldo Castaño Grajales, 18, 20 and 24 years respectively, they were leaving a residential neighborhood Limonar. The women came with a laptop, an Xbox 360 and a briefcase. According to authorities, they would have provided victims with psychoactive substance, called benzodiazepines, which […]
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This is a clip from the film ‘Impunity’ which is a new documentary that Hollman Morris produced with filmmaker Juan Lozano. It won a special mention at the International Human Rights Film Festival and Forum on March 11th, 2011, in Geneva. The film condemns the amnesty which paramilitaries received under the Justice and Peace Law […]
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Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of a new message from the “central column” of the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) paramilitary group voicing threats against journalists, civil society figures and NGOs. Dated 14 March and sent from a Gmail account in the name of “fenixaguilasnegras,” the message promises the “extermination” and “purge” of a […]
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The Ministry of Defense of Colombia centralize the procurement system of material, suspendiente the power purchases by the Armed Forces and 16 companies that depend on them granted in 2006. The new measure will be announced during this week when Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera make public the permanent directive number 11 according to the local […]
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There are private security and continued presence of the police, but crime persists. The case of the Central University student Francys Aries Castro, 23, who last March 2 injured with a knife, after suffering a robbery after leaving school, is the most serious happened to a student at the center Bogota, in recent months. Read […]
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The Aires aircraft managed to land smoothly at the airport Garzones in Monteria. According to Caracol Radio reported the plane, en route to Medellin, Monteria, he blew out an engine in flight. Read Article
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The incident occurred at 7:40 pm Saturday at the height of the tunnels Quebradablanca. Although at first unofficially, there was a balance of 21 people dead, police corrected the figure. The incident occurred when, apparently, the tourist chiva 385 XUE tourist plates ran out of brakes on a slope of the road and its driver […]
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A Colombian man is jailed in Miami 17 years after he and three brothers were indicted on charges of working for the now-defunct Medellin cocaine cartel. Sigifredo Maya made his first court appearance Friday and was ordered held without bail. Authorities say the 48-year-old Maya was detained a week earlier in Panama while attempting to […]
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Departure of the food company is a fact. En asamblea se acordó la liquidación. In assembly agreed settlement. For the 186 employees working in the Pacific Zone until last December, before the floor was flooded as a result of the cold wave that struck the region, the company offers a voluntary retirement plan, whose term […]
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The Guerrillas’ Youth Armies Claudia Sánchez-Bustamante/DIÁLOGO 16/03/2011 Abuses against Minors and Vulnerable Populations in the Hands of Terrorist Movements Seventeen thousand minors are part of the internal armed conflict in Colombia according to the Colombian non-governmental organization (NGO) “Our Children: Task without End” (“Nuestra Niñez Tarea Sin Fin”). The International Tribunal on Children Affected by […]
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A 31-year-old Colombian man has been arrested here for running an international gang that committed two robberies within five days of its arrival in the capital, police said Wednesday. After his arrest Tuesday evening, gang leader Edier Jaidiber of Bogota told police that he had studied the Indian Penal Code and believed that he won’t […]
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The Government will on Thursday the first group of Colombian prisoners in Ecuador, who will be repatriated from the neighboring country and delivered to the International Bridge Rumichaca. Texto copiado de www.rcnradio.com – Conozca el original en http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.rcnradio.com/noticias/16-03-11/confirman-repatriaci-n-de-primer-grupo-de-colombianos-presos-en-ecuador&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhhQrE2Kanb7D8sH2KEv5pRs0oLNVQ#ixzz1Gmmoq3ub Read Article
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s Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez plans to visit Colombia in the coming weeks for the full restoration of bilateral relations, trade in the border areas remains stuck seven months after Caracas briefly broke off diplomatic ties with Bogota in a row. The strongest impact of the decline in trade has been felt in the northeastern […]
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One person died and another was injured Monday when a small private plane crashed in the jungles of southern Colombia, aviation officials said. The single-engine aircraft that provides services to private enterprise Ariari was covering the route between the town of El Retorno and San Jose del Guaviare, in the jungle province of Guaviare. Read […]
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Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said Monday Colombia’s ties with Nicaragua are still difficult, and accused the Nicaraguan government of not showing interest in improving the bilateral situation. Read Article
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In a pamphlet said several leaders as military targets. “For about five years did not come as we receive pamphlets last week,” said Gerardo Santibañez, a director of the Union of Workers and Employees of Autonomous and Decentralized Public Service of Colombia (Simtraemsdes), chapter Risaralda, who was designated as “military targets”, through a pamphlet that […]
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The victims were a woman and eleven men were killed, apparently, for eight days.The bodies of twelve alleged members of armed drug gangs were found in a deserted rural area poblaciónde Caucasia, local authorities said Monday. Read Article
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Tomorrow, the Colombian-Chinese consortium Airplan deliver the works in the José María Córdova.That will be a thing of the past in the terminal aéreoque criticism and discomfort of passengers and traders for alleged delays and inconveniences such as leaks, unfinished ceiling, hallways and rooms shading approach. Read Article
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A Salvadoran mechanics group, part of the small aircraft builder Press Group, part of building a fleet for basic training of pilots of the Colombian Air Force (FAC). The total investment in the fleet of 25 military trainer aircraft primary Calima T-90, is U.S. $ 10 million. Late last year, technicians Press, a company based […]
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Just off the Amazon River, lies the village of Nazareth. But don’t think about dropping by. Tired of being a curiosity to the outside world, the indigenous people have banned tourists. Thousands of adventurous, backpacking tourists flock to southern Colombia every year, drawn by eco-tourism and the hope of interacting with the peoples who live […]
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that any company that pays extortion money to outlawed rebel groups will be kicked out of the country. The president’s comments come after reports of a possible or planned payment by Canadian oil firm Talisman Energy Inc. (TLM, TLM.T) to secure the release of oil workers who were […]
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About 220 Colombian indigenes had to leave their homes in the western department of Choco due to pressure and attacks by an organized crime ring, humanitarian organizations reported Wednesday. The 220 people from 43 families of the Embera community near the municipality of Bajo Baudo were forced to leave by “Los Rastrojos,” an armed gang […]
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Like most of the small landowners in Colombia’s lush mountainous Cauca region, Luis Garzón, 80, and his family have thrived for decades by supplying shade-grown, rainforest-friendly Arabica coffee for top foreign brands like Nespresso and Green Mountain. A sign in the center of a nearby town proclaims, “The coffee of Cauca is No. 1!” Read […]
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Six politicians once held hostage by Colombian rebels are seeking $20 million for financial and emotional losses from the government they blame for allowing them to be snatched, officials said Tuesday. Read Article
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Colombian troops have freed all but one of the 23 local oil contractors working for Canadian operator Talisman Energy, who were snatched a day earlier by suspected FARC rebels, authorities said on Tuesday. Read Article
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Suspected FARC guerrillas have kidnapped 23 local oil contractors carrying out exploration work in a remote jungle area of Colombia for Canada’s Talisman Energy Inc, authorities said on Monday.Read Article
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Two Colombian air force helicopters have crashed during a training exercise, killing four Colombian soldiers and a Mexican lieutenant participating in the operation. Read Article
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Initial investigations indicate that the assault did a gang of minors. A young Englishman died shot in the west of Medellin when he tried to resist a robbery on Saturday night. The victim, according to preliminary versions are that he has not been positively identified but was in his early twenties. The incident occurred when […]
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Earlier this week a Spanish woman was visiting Baranquilla and was murdered by two subjects. Look carefully how the assailants set up the attack. There was no one else in the Restaurant. The group the victim was with did not even seem to note anyone else coming in and sitting down even though the two […]
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nfodefensa.com) By P. Palacios, Lima – members active and retired Air Force and the Peruvian army were involved in a network of illegal arms from different quarters for Peruvians and narco-terrorist organization called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo (FARC_EP). The research was conducted by the Third Provincial Criminal Prosecutor Lima Supra merit […]
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Coastal, inland, country and some of the eastern plains make up the select group of young people who first entered the Naval Academy Officers’ ARC “Barranquilla” 279 candidates are prepared to start his military career as a Naval Petty Officer of the Navy of Colombia . At seven o’clock the guard looked School attended, was […]
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66 year old U.S. citizen Elizabeth Star passed away after falling from a horse in Cocora Nature Reserve. According to caracol.com.co, the victim was attempting to cross a creeek with her husband and other tourists when she lost control of the horse. She was also dragged by the horse several meters. Attempts by doctors to […]
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In the world of Harry Potter, owls are a bridge between the magical and muggle (that’s normal folk to me and you) world. In the world of soccer in Colombia, an owl has become the link between the Deportivo Pereira defender Luis Morales and a fine and suspension, which was announced on Wednesday. Read Article
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Restrict buyers from importing products from areas where the pest is present. The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), through Resolution 001 of 2011 established national phytosanitary measures to control and decrease in different fruit species the presence of fruit flies. The goal is to areas of low pest prevalence and fruit growers reduce the damage caused […]
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Three suspected militants captured, apparently, gave support to the front of the FARC Magdalena. Detectives of the Administrative Security Department, assigned to the Branch Santander Bolivar, supported by troops from the Army and Navy captured three suspected militants of the FARC. Read Article
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Three of them posing as an evangelical pastor, ‘witch’ and rich young man. All are accused of child sexual abuse 14 years and were captured in recent days by police in Medellin. Although the authorities did not disclose the names of these men, they said they were known by the aliases of ‘the Evangelical’, ‘Sorcerer’ […]
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Irene Cortes was chatting with her family when she received a gunshot wound during an attempted robbery.The woman, 32 year old mother of five children, was shot in the chest on Wednesday night, inflicted by one of three assailants who attacked in a public place in which he was with her husband, Farid Yinás born […]
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THE United Nations has recognised Colombia’s progress in combating drug trafficking by removing it from a list of countries requiring special observation, an official said on Tuesday. Colombia is removed in 2011 from the special observation list,’ Camilo Uribe, a member of the International Narcotics Control Board, told reporters in Bogota. Read Article
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Panamanian international Luis Moreno said he had been threatened on Tuesday for kicking an owl, which subsequently died, during a Colombian championship match. Read Article
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The report from the Center of Study and Analysis on Citizen Security in Bogota said on Monday that in the last two years the clandestine arms market in the city has moved more than 5 million U.S. dollars. According to the document, the 9-millimeter pistols and revolvers 38 caliber are the most common weapons sold […]
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A former guerrillas used as a “model” of the FARC printed propaganda was arrested in the last hours by the Colombian authorities in the city of Pereira (west), reported the Department of Administrative Security (DAS .) This is Jhasmit Andrea Moncada Vélez, alias “Feliener” or “Cat” and former member of Aurelio Rodriguez against the Revolutionary […]
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Colombia’s Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline, transporting around 80,000 barrels per day (bpd), has been attacked but exports have not been affected, a source at state-run Ecopetrol said told Reuters. Read Article
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La alta Guajira, particularmente los municipios de Uribia y Manaure, es el principal epicentro del movimiento de las bacrim en este departamento. La Guajira, particularly the municipalities of Uribia and Manaure, is the global epicenter of the movement of BACRIM in this department. The authorities recognize that in this region are “franchises” ‘Urabeños’, ‘the Stubble’, […]
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In 2010 there were more attacks on members of the community than FARC and the ELN combined. At 90, Jose Viloria thought he was above all the violence that struck Cordoba and failed to remove it from the farm in a village of Montelibano. I did not expect the new criminal groups. On January 6, […]
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday that e-mails of Mono Jojoy, a former and dead leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), have showed an increase of killings within the guerrilla group for desertions. Read Article
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Colombian criminal bands linked to former paramilitary groups drove a 40 percent rise in massacres in 2010, slaughtering human rights activists, public officials and civilians, the United Nations said on Thursday. Read Article
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Ines Elena Jimenez an epidemiologist reported to Caracol Radio that there has been an almost 35 percent increase in AIDS cases among housewives in the Department of Quindío. The blame is placed on husbands who continue to live promiscious lifestyles. Most of the women learn they are carrying the virus while they are pregnant. Health […]
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Right in the classroom and in the presence of all his classmates and teachers, two children met in a fight with knives and two were wounded. This case occurred, said Col. William Alberto Boyacá, commander in charge of the Metropolitan Police, school official Carreño Camacho located in the heart of Bucaramanga. Read Article
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The Ministry of Defense of Colombia will present a project to ensure the legal defense of the military who are under investigation for actions related to the service. The minister of that portfolio, Rodrigo Rivera, stated that the draft text is ready to be put into consideration by the Congress. Read Article
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Billionaire Carlos Slim’s Grupo Carso SAB agreed to acquire a 70 percent stake in Geoprocesados SA’s Tabasco Oil Co., gaining access to the Colombian oil market as the country seeks to boost crude and natural-gas output. Read Article
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Earlier today, Dr. Boris Behncke posted a link to some fascinating images of the dome growing at the summit of Nevado del Huila (see below) in Colombia. The volcano started erupting again in 2007 after what is thought to be almost 500 years of quiet. The eruptions since 2007 have been relatively passive – VEI […]
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The Colombian government’s greater openness to dialogue and the recent release of hostages by that country’s FARC guerrillas have created a climate in which it is possible to move in the direction of a negotiated solution to an armed conflict that has dragged on for nearly half a decade. Read Article
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