According to witnesses, Antonio Hernando Vargas, 73 years old, was found at 7:40 am on Thursday inside his vehicle, which was parked on a rail bridge Flora of Bucaramanga. According to versions of their family, the man was traveling at that time in his taxi with two passengers and a sudden, became unconscious, at least […]
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Former guerrillas of the FARC guerrilla organization abandoned this seemingly would provide military training drug traffickers in that country to avoid the control of the authorities and care for crops. This was revealed by the Bolivian Vice Minister of Social Defense, Felipe Cáceres and the newspaper El Deber reported on its website. The information submitted […]
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foxbusiness.com reported that crude oil from southern Colombia could begin flowing through Ecuador’s OCP pipeline as early as next week under an agreement to be signed Wednesday between the pipeline operator and Colombian producer Vetra Exploracion y Produccion SA, a pipeline company official said. Read Article
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Worldbulletin.net reported that Colombia and the Marxist FARC rebels launched their latest round of peace talks on Tuesday in Havana after a month-long break in a process aimed at ending half a century of bloody conflict in the South American nation. At the end of their last round on March 21, both sides cited progress […]
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President Rafael Correa ordered the Armed Forces to respond “with all possible firepower” any alleged attack on Colombia rebel groups operating in the border. The president’s political decision of April 13 came after the confrontation that occurred four days earlier on the border with Colombia in the area of Palma Seca (San Miguel River sector). […]
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The President, Rafael Correa, warned yesterday irregular groups of Colombia after the attack occurred this week in the province of Sucumbios, on the border with Colombia, where a helicopter was shot Armed Forces. “Gentlemen of the illegal groups in Colombia: FARC, paramilitaries, as they are called, with Ecuador not play,” he told the Citizen Link […]
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elespectador.com reported that “She did not need anything. She had a wonderful body. It had nothing to envy anyone. ” Astrid does not understand why her sister Sandra Viviana Bedoya Brand underwent a surgery that ended apparently taking his life. The investigation is just beginning, but the first testimonies say Cali, actress, 30, visited on […]
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The death of a child of eight years in the ‘music capital’ alerted authorities. More than 70 percent of the department is in epidemiological risk. According to Secretary of Health of the municipality, Jaime Gómez Mendoza, has decreed yellow alert for the 1398 dengue cases and 50 common or severe dengue hemorrhagic recorded so far […]
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As of July 15, the country will have a new driver’s license issuance and will not be free as announced by the Government. So said Aida Lucy Ospina, Director of Traffic and Transport Ministry of Traffic, who explained that the changes will not only form, which will provide greater security, but also of content, allowing […]
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elcolombian.com reported that Venezuela’s government on Tuesday closed its border crossings with Colombia because of Sunday’s election, a decision that leaves a week to both nations cut off by land with consequences for the movement of people and trade. The border closure occurred at 6:15 am on Tuesday and will be reopened on Tuesday, confirmed […]
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Colombia’s navy seized 1,181 kilos of cocaine that were transported in a national flagged fishing the Pacific to Central America, and arrested the seven crew. The boat was intercepted 20 nautical miles west of Isla Gorgona. Possibly left the port of Buenaventura, in the province of Valle del Cauca. Read Article
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The Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said that air missiles seized from the FARC are too old and have little capacity to do harm to the military forces. He explained that the Colombian security forces aware of the intentions of the FARC to acquire missiles since 2008. Read Article
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CTI agents captured in the Santa Librada, south of Bogota, Vergara Graciela Bautista, alias ‘The Morenaza’, who was designated to be part of the FARC and provide food and coordinate logistical support to the guerrilla group from Bogota. “She had within their holdings supply food to the Front 53 of the FARC, who had connections […]
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Suspended coal transportation within the city limits of Santa Marta, until companies take measures to control the dust that is affecting communities. The decision of the environmental authority of Santa Marta is related to complaints of residents of several communities in the west of the city that have been affected with respiratory diseases by dust […]
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elpais.com.co reported that troops of Task Force Pegasus assigned to Joint Command South West found in the department of Nariño, a cache with Ecuadorian manufacturing explosives belonging to the FARC’s 48th Front, said Monday the Army of Colombia festive. During an operation in the town of Ipiales, the military found a cache with 1900 bars […]
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New FARC attack against pipeline in Putumayo A stretch of the Trans-Andean pipeline was blown up in an action by the authorities attributed to the FARC, said Thursday. The bombing occurred around 10:00 am in a rural area of Puerto Asís, Putumayo department. Read Article
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Ecuador Military repelled shot and suspected members of the so-called illegal armed groups in Colombia (GIAC) located in a border area, a fact that no casualties among the soldiers, said the joint command of the armed forces. The agency said the soldiers “while performing operations Ecuadorian border protection in your jurisdiction, repelled with fire potential […]
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The subjects, aged 19 and 22, were captured when on a motorcycle by the sector of Ciudad Bolivar, in the field of Ciudadela Real de Minas de Bucaramanga. The two men were captured by the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Police after surveillance. The men tried to escape on a motorcycle black, when they noticed the presence of […]
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Bogotá Metropolitan Police captured in the last hours in the Santa Isabel neighborhood, south of the capital, alias “Luis el Grande’, who handled everything related to the acquisition of weapons for the FARC Front 7. The man, whom authorities did not provide their real identities, 34, had spent several months in the capital with the […]
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At 6:40 pm on Saturday, the child was going to a neighborhood store María Paz, where he lived, to buy a note from their parents, when a criminal attacked him with a knife for stealing $ 50 thousand dollars for manadado pay. “We sent him to the store with 50 thousand dollars, but never imagined […]
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Two people died: Diego Gallego, 26, and Andres Felipe Garcia, 22, of Caracol Television technical assistants, who returned to Ottawa, where he passed the Colombia match against Bolivia. There are 22 people with minor injuries, who have already been discharged. There are four other wounded who are still being assessed. Apparently, none has gravity Read […]
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Possibly planted by ELN elcolombian.com reported that the National Police for disabled transit Gilberto Echeverri bridge sector of South 4th Street for a suspicious package that alerted the public in the early hours of the morning. Police officers who came to the area and cordoned off the place explosionproof group moved there to review its […]
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roops of the Navy detected and defused an improvised explosive device in the urban area of Bahía Solano (Chocó), which had been abandoned by members of the 57th Front of the FARC terrorist organization. The operation was performed in the early morning hours after a patrol Marine Brigade No. 2 surprised two men, trying to […]
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Security cameras of a bus company affiliated Trasalianco in Barranquilla, recorded the times when two criminals robbed of money and possessions to the driver and several passengers who were driving down the street then 17, in the neighborhood Rebolo.
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Eltiempo.com reported that Avianca has been ordered to remove a list of people he called “non-conforming”. Avianca has 48-hour period to lift the veto imposed a passenger argued with their employees and delete your files the ‘black list’ of users in which was included for his behavior. This was ordered on Tuesday a ruling by […]
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Elcolombiano.com reported that an emergency is presented on Friday in the town of San Jose del Palmar in Choco due to heavy rains that have occurred in the area. The growing inhabits rivers and bridges swept Ingaraá access the municipality from the Valle del Cauca and Risaralda. Therefore, air can only enter the area. It […]
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Five Americans, one Swiss, one Panamanian, one Canadian, one Colombian sailing from Panama for Cartagena resucued. The crew of the vessel amounted to report the incident to the line 123 of the Police, who informed the Coast Guard of Cartagena, who undertook the rescue. Nine people were rescued by the Navy units, after the boat […]
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The explosion of a mine field between the municipalities of Anori and Camp, in northern Antioquia, left six soldiers wounded, who were taken to hospital due to his injuries. This was confirmed by the Departmental Government Secretary, Santiago Londoño, who reported that the front 36 of the FARC continues the indiscriminate installation of antipersonnel mines […]
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Globaltimes.cn reported that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were blamed Thursday for blowing up a train track in the northern department of La Guajira, derailing cargo cars, damaging rails and disrupting exports. “An explosive was detonated against a train belonging to the Cerrejon coal mine heading to Puerto Bolivar (for export). As a […]
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Radiosantafe.com reported that units of Traffic and Transportation Branch seized Pentolite 36 bars on the road leading from the village of the municipality of Balboa Mojarras. The seizure occurred when the officers observed a man on his shoulders carrying a box and noticing it was followed by policemen quickened his pace leaving the box on […]
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With the death in combat of two individuals belonging to the armed offenders in northeastern Antioquia, amounted to 10 members of the guerrilla cells killed since December when the Army, in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office, launched the campaign Sword of Honor. The death of the insurgents who were armed with two rifles with […]
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Norte, Bucaramanga, Barrio La Independencia, Home attacked by grenade , possible gang retaliation (grenade IM-26) could be due to a possible gang retaliation sector. Read Article
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Attacks using scopolamine are not limited to bars or nightclubs. Reports have also taken place at banks and public transport systems. Mode of delivery in those locations can often be via a piece of paper which has been contaminated. Last year 1186 complaints were reported according to eltiempo.com. Bogota is the city most cases recorded. […]
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Eluniverso.com reported “The Ecuadorian government, through the FAE, and efforts of the Embassy of Ecuador in Colombia sent a Boeing 727 bound for Cali (470 km southwest of Bogota), Ecuador immobilized to transport because of unemployment,” said the portfolio in a statement. The report said that “at least 41 Ecuadorians” were affected and were helped […]
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The Germans Breur Uwe Otto and Gunther were kidnapped last November by the ELN, the second active guerrilla in Colombia, while conducting ecotourism in the Catatumbo region, on the border with Venezuela. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today announced its willingness to participate in the humanitarian operation that seeks to bring the […]
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The diagnosis of tuberculosis in the Valle del Cauca are more common than believed. This is evidenced by a report by the Foundation for Education and Social Development, FES, with advice from the Fundación Valle del Lili and Icesi University, which indicates that so far this year there have been in the department 95 cases […]
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Central Bank announced that as of May, Colombians traveling abroad may take up to $ 10,000 in cash, you only need to report for national taxes with the number leaving the city, so the Issuer will create a mandatory written statement. Read Article
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Transparency Secretariat of the Presidency said yesterday that corruption offenses were recorded more in the country, between November 2011 and March 2012, are embezzlement (45.2%), bribery (31.8%) , extortion (11.7%) and breach of public duty (6.4%). In criminal sanctions, in a measurement per 100,000 inhabitants, the first place was Amazon, with 119.7 cases sanctioned, followed […]
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These ‘Alirio Comején’, who was also chief financial officer of that front. Infantry Battalion of Selva N. 19 in the town of La Esperanza, Puerto Rico (southern Meta), held on Sunday fighting with that front. As a result died guerrilla, who joined the FARC in 1984 in Santa fe Caguan (Caquetá) and he played for […]
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Victimization rose 11 points, but improved the perception of security, according to the Chamber of Commerce. The balance-for the second half of 2012 – is about the perception of safety and victimization in the capital. Victimization scored 31 percent, ie, up 11 points over the second half of 2011, when I was at 20 percent. […]
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eltiempo.com reported that the strike called for Monday coffee has blocked some roads in several departments. When the police commander of Risaralda, Colonel Cyrus Cifuentes and Secretary of Government department, Andres Echeverry, trying to reach an agreement on Monday to reopen the road Pereira-La Virginia, there were fighting with rocks, sticks, water and gas tear. […]
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vanguardia.com reported that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in its annual report on the situation in Colombia, said criminal gangs, known as Bacrim, have become one of the largest sources of human rights violations. “The post-demobilization groups, are considered by all sectors of the biggest threats to public order, and responsible for the greatest […]
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eltiempo.com reported that with the advance of the epidemic outbreak living the department on behalf of the dengue virus, health authorities Valley have drawn attention to blinde the population is under 15. So far this year there have been 1,339 cases of dengue, 53 of them seriously, and three people have died, including two girls […]
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Radiosantefe.com reported the Army confirmed that a Black Hawk helicopter gunship he advanced joint operations with the Police in southern goal, crashed to the ground after presenting mechanical failure, despite the spectacular incident,According to the first report, the five helicopter crew escaped unharmed from the incident. Read Article
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“We have oil for 8.1 years and we know that’s not much time to sustain a pace of 1 million barrels per day. That’s why we need to find reserves quickly,” Cardenas told RCN Radio. The Finance minister said, however, that Ecopetrol posted strong results last year. Colombia only has enough oil to last another […]
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Colombian Army troops were seized in the south kilos of explosive ANFO 1850 allegedly by the FARC would be used to carry out attacks in several departments in the area, military sources said. The explosives were in a hideout that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were in a rural village of El Quebradón, […]
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This was confirmed in a statement to Radio Santa Fe through the Secretary of Health of the capital of the Atlantic, Alma Solano, who said that the operation prevented condoms were distributed at carnivals. The official said that the seizure of condoms made in development of any inspection, surveillance and control that anticipates periodically Environmental […]
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Two police officers charged with extortion in Bogotá……It is the superintendent José Antonio Ochoa and Patrolman Luis Alexander White, who had received five million dollars from a woman to her husband not arrested for illegal possession of weapons. The circumstances being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office, were recorded in December 2011, in the town […]
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The police captured alias “Sarley” or “Countryman”, subject to 37 years of age who is the second leader of the criminal gang “Rebirth” that offends in the department of Chocó, mainly in the town of Istmina. The capture came when soldiers in a checkpoint located in the village of El Sabanal Monteria, Cordoba, they asked […]
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elcolombiano.com reported that an emergency plan activated Ecopetrol officials to prevent the oil spill, caused by an attack, allegedly by FARC guerrillas the Cano Limon-Covenas on Saturday night. Among the contingencies is the installation of barriers that prevent the fuel from contaminating the Catatumbo river and cause an environmental emergency such as that produced in […]
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The National Police announced seizure of an arsenal of weapons against seven of the FARC and the logistical structure of the criminal gang known as “Pijarvey” a dissident ERPAC, known as “Libertadores del Vichada” in jungle area of Meta. In seizing two caches hidden underground, include machine guns, rifles, and rocket launchers, with which this […]
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The ELN announced Monday in a statement that “Canada remains” in his possession, after the Friday release his five fellow prisoners, all mine workers Geo Explorer. The armed group did not specify the reasons why the engineer did not provide Jernoc Wobert, VP Exploration of the Company, but justified the kidnapping in their struggle against […]
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Nariño. In developing the Comprehensive Intervention Strategy against Terrorism, run-oriented advance mechanisms that would reduce terrorist intentions, the police located a cache of explosives that would be used for terrorist attacks against security forces and civilians. The procedure took place in the village board Motilón Gomez Township, where officials of the Judicial Police Criminal Investigation […]
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Source: Colombian Police: Operation “Republica 22” makes it clear alliance between the FARC and “Urabeños” for drug trafficking ANNP 17-FEB-13. Bogotá DC 13 people were caught in the departments of Caldas, Nariño, Norte de Santander and Santander. At the end of 16 months of research the Narcotics Division of the National Police in coordination with […]
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Colombia Police reported: Valle del Cauca. The final destination would alkaloid departments Antioquia and the coffee, its market value would exceed 4.617 million pesos. In police operations conducted in the struggle against the micro traffic, in the last hours were seized more than 7 tons and a half of marijuana and captured three people, plus […]
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ICRC.org reported that five civilians held by the National Liberation Army (ELN) since 18 January have been released into the care of a team from the ICRC. The handover took place in a rural area of Bolívar department in northern Colombia. The released civilians, who work for a mining company, are: William Batista, Manuel Zabaleta […]
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Elpais.com reported in what would be one of the hardest blows to the Army of Colombia since the start of peace talks with the FARC in Cuba, on Wednesday seven soldiers were killed in clashes with guerrillas of the Front 15 Jose Ignacio Mora Southern Bloc of the FARC, considered one of the strongest militarily […]
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42% of the members of the FARC is for children recruited, while in 44% of ELN insurgents are minors. People used to talk that 14,000 children were associated with armed groups outside the law. The latest report of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare in conjunction with political scientist Natalia Springer, revealed that the figure […]
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elcolombiano.com reported at 11:00 am, the Minister of Defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón, began meeting with delegates of the International Red Cross to arrange the release protocol of three soldiers kidnapped by the FARC and the ELN kidnapped German . On the other hand, the ELN called on Monday to the German Government to appoint a […]
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The bombing of two power poles on the afternoon of Sunday FARC guerrillas, is without electricity the town of Puerto Rondon. Military sources said that in addition to El Colombiano, the rebels crossed two vehicles on the road between Arauca and put municpio with explosive devices around. Read Article
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elcolombiano.com reported the bodies of five people were found Monday in the village of La Bamba, the township Puerto Claver, in the municipality of El Bagre, located in the subregion of Bajo Cauca Antioquia, according to judicial sources. The victims, all African descent, were taken in a truck to the city morgue to the respective […]
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Caracol.co reported that four houses collapsed, destroying roads and sewer systems damage left by recent rains that occurred in the capital of Norte de Santander. The emergency occurred in different neighborhoods, initially in the area of Las Chiveras, where heavy rain swept the path to the area, destroyed a channel rainwater and sewage collector, affecting […]
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The explosion of this grenade is the fifth occurring in the last 15 days in Cucuta and the municipalities of the metropolitan area. One person dead and five wounded left the detonation of a grenade in the municipality of Puerto Santander, Cucuta metropolitan area. The incident occurred when someone threw the device in a pool […]
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Barbacoas Nariño Colombia: A Prosecutor located a mass grave with the bodies of three Awá children. They were allegedly kidnapped and murdered in the southwest part of the country by the FARC in September, 2011. The children’s bodies were found in a jungle area of the village Barbacoas on Friday February 8, 2013, in the […]
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Elpais.com reported, Optimism that the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos , displayed on a happy ending future peace negotiations with the FARC keeps government in Cuba-sentiment shared by the negotiating team of the guerrilla clashes with what happens in the battlefield. Military and guerrillas have intensified the fighting and the latter have resumed the […]
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Hash House / Chop House (Casas de Pique, Casas de pique: No this is not a restaurant or place to consume hashish. According to RCNRADIO.com, paramilitaries in Buenaventura Colombia are using a new form of violence in this port city. Victims are dismembered while alive, and then their parts are thrown into the sea. According […]
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According to Caracol.com a special report reveals that fifteen places, located in the center of Medellin, including houses, guest houses, local bars and cantinas are used by armed groups outside the law to detain, torture, prosecute and kill people. Preferred sites for the development of these executions have special features: thick walls muffle the screams, […]
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According to carcol.com, FARC proposed legalize some marijuana crops, poppy and coca leaf in the country, and to suspend the granting of mining rights and concessions for oil exploration and extraction. These measures are part of a document entitled “Eight proposals for minimum social and environmental management” the guerrillas of Colombia presented to the table […]
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caracol.com reported an imminent extradition to the United States face both cases and eight operators narcocontroladores Airport in Barranquilla Ernesto Cortissoz Police captured by Colombia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA. According to research, in the airport terminal were falsified flight plans of the aircraft so that they could easily meet the requirements of […]
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The Child and Adolescent Police carried out an operation to catch people using minors to the drug trade. In the operation, were found three kilos of cocaine were seized.
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Two German captives in Colombia by the leftist ELN are retirees who were in this country as tourists, said Tuesday the German Embassy in Bogotá, indicating that the German Foreign Ministry activated a crisis unit. German captives are: Uwe Breur y Gunther Otto Breuer According to elnuevoherald.com, Two German citizens are currently deprived of their […]
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Three members of the FARC, who offended in the department of Cauca, escaped from his terrorist cell and voluntarily appeared before military units where they asked for protection. Deliveries occurred in the rural area of the municipality of Morales, offensive operations scenario deployed by members of the Mobile Brigade 37, assigned to the Third Division. […]
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arcoiris.com reported that Uribe received: $ 25,838,213, second Conservative former President Andres Pastrana Arango receive each month: 21,956,000. The former president Ernesto Samper Pizano liberal: $ 21,956,000, while Lemos Martha White, widow and former wife of Carlos Lemos Simmonds obtained monthly: $ 21,956,000, just because her ex-husband served for the past nine days of presidency […]
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arcoiris.com.co reported ……Today the neighborhood where it is called the Laguito Cubanacán and are 120 houses in total, with between one and six rooms, all fully furnished and with domestic service and limo driver, serving guests what they call houses Protocol which are numbered and have a strict monitoring service, directly linked to the Interior […]
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NGOs say they have indirect presence in more municipalities than pointing Mindefensa. The fight for control of drug trafficking routes and illegal mining has focused the dispute and the presence of criminal gangs in at least eight departments. In this figure match reports from NGOs and the Ministry of Defence on the actual or active […]
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Major Areas of Disappearances Bogota, Valle del Cauca, Antioquia, Tolima According to caracol.com.co, the Director of Legal Medicine lamented that minors also are part of the missing records, and found that most occur in young people between 14 and 17 years. According Legal Medicine, this year 634 people have been reported missing and 316 women. […]
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La Mano Negra – crime group vanguardia.com reported that few people dare to comment on the appearance of a pamphlet signed allegedly by ‘The Rastrojos and’ The Black Hand ‘, in which death threats against 30 youths, who, according to the letter, they were given a deadline of 48 hours to leave the sector.The threat […]
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cpj.org press release -Authorities in Colombia should ensure the safety of two journalists who have fled the northern city of Montería after being threatened for their reporting on criminal groups, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Amilkar Alvear, a reporter for the daily El Heraldo and its sister newspaper, Al Día, and Jairo Cassiani, […]
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dw.de reported that Colombia’s economy has improved over the past two decades, but the new middle class has only profited to a limited extent. Their social and economic situation is insecure. Colombia’s middle class is growing. The World Bank estimates that the percentage of Colombians who count themselves middle class has risen to 28 from […]
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A judge has spurned a prominent Colombian’s attempt to prevent the release of a feature film about the odyssey of the child born to her while she was a rebel hostage. The mother, Clara Rojas, had argued allowing the film “Operation E” to be shown in Colombian theatres would harm the development of her son, […]
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Trust.org reported that Colombia’s FARC rebels on Thursday freed three oil contractors kidnapped a day earlier, military sources said, though the guerrillas killed four soldiers in the south as they step up pressure during peace talks. The kidnappings and other violent incidents came days after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, made clear […]
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spanish.china.org.cn reported that the Army and Navy of Colombia seized three tons of explosives and an arsenal in the department of Nariño (southwest), which borders Ecuador, according to reports released today on Radio Nacional de Colombia. “The first creek (hiding) consisted of 3,000 kilograms of ammonium nitrate and 145 IEDs type landmine. Structure in wood […]
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1. I am forced to speak and learn Spanish every day. 2. Colombians are some of the most friendly people on the planet. 3. A full head of foils doesn’t cost $200… more like $30! 4. The same goes for a manicure and a pedicure, they don’t cost an arm and a leg! 5. I […]
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Infonews.com reported that Argentine journalist Ricardo Alfredo Gentille died today after falling from the 16th floor of the hotel I was staying in the resort city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (north), police said. The operational commander of the Police of Cartagena, the Colonel Amparo Garzon told the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo that at present […]
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SOURCE: laprensa.hn Authorities indicate that 11 Honduran cartels are part of narcotics smuggling network. Five drug cartels from Colombia are using Honduras as a drop off point to transport illegal drugs on to Mexico with ultimate destination of the United States. Research by Honduran office of drug trafficking (DLCN) and the Honduran military working in […]
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Keith Bayford wrote in Colombiareports.com, since my arrival in Colombia to the extent that Colombia is no longer “cheap” in my eyes, quite to the contrary. Well, there you are; I have asked the question about the cost of living in Colombia, but it does not necessarily mean I have the answer. But I can […]
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Investigation reports by Lasemana.com of Colombia….. ECUADOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS OPERATING IN COLOMBIA ILLEGALLY Lasemana.com reported …… an account of a plot involving intelligence agents from Ecuador in making attempts to kidnap Fernando Balda Flores, a citizen from Ecuador and known opponent of Rafael Correa. Mr Fernando Balda Flores is a politician worked in the political […]
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Nearly 84 people have reached the town of Tierralta after armed raid men who perpetrated a criminal gang of drug traffickers, apparently from Los Urabeños, Santa Isabel Manso, located in the middle lane Paramillo knot south Tierralta Township. A similar situation is being generated with the Embera Katio near the area, which are moving towards […]
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OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE MONITORING IN LATIN AMERICA – In the last hours in the departments of Cundinamarca and Meta, explosives experts destroyed in a controlled four landmines, belonging to Jose Antonio Anzoategui 53 crew of the FARC. The first action was carried out by troops of General Francisco Landazábal N13 Artillery, where they found in […]
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Colombia seized 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine that allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would be sent to the cartel Los Zetas in Veracruz Bogotá. – The National Police of Colombia seized late on a load of 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would […]
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According to rcnradio.com, a tourist from the United States was found dead in his hotel room in Bocagrande Cartagena, Colombia. William James, age fifty arrived Saturday in Cartagena. Cleaning staff found the deceased. He was transported to the morgue for a autopsy. This is the first reported death of a foreigner in Cartagena in 2013. […]
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Elpais.com reported that in the center of Bogotá is another city within the city you have to go to wander aimlessly, with eyes wide open and attentive to the surprise did not expect and can appear in any corner, and the Passage Hernandez in the block located between races 8 and 9 and 12th and […]
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said Friday that the military forces are “in focus” ELN kidnappers this morning took captive a Canadian, two Peruvians and two Colombians working for a mining company in northern country. “We’re on top of the hijackers in southern Bolivar. Forces already mobilized and we targeted,” the president wrote […]
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JetBlue starting 13JUN13 will begin daily Ft. Lauderdale – Medellin operation, as the low-fare carrier opened reservation for this new route earlier this month. Airbus A320 aircraft to operate this route. Read Article
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Colombiareports.com reported that the guerrilla leader Rodrigo Granda rejected General Fernando Proaño’s statements after he accused the FARC of increasing weapons purchases in Ecuador during the unilateral cease-fire. “Since the beginning of the peace process…we have captured a great amount of ammunition, arms and therefore we know they [FARC] took advantage of this situation to […]
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A total of 4697 Colombian girls under 14 were mothers in the first nine months of 2012, according to official statistics, which according to the director of the Instituto Colombiano of Family Welfare (ICBF), Diego Molano, is a “serious problem” in the country. Molano reported today that teen pregnancies and tweens are “a problem that […]
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The material was found in two underground bunkers and would be destined for attacks on electrical towers and Pipelines. National Army sources disclosed the seizure of 4.3 tons of explosives in Nupe village in the municipality of Alto Ricaurte, Nariño. The explosives were hidden in a FARC camp, underground bunker in two wood, when they […]
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CABLE BREAKS ON AIRTRAMWAY AT Las Nubes de Jericó, Antioquia voxpopuli.net reported that 12 passengers were stranded Thursday afternoon in the Park aerial cable Clouds of Jericho, Antioquia, ( Las Nubes de Jericó, Antioquia) were rescued by the fire brigade and rescue organizations. The authorities listed two seniors and four children between the visitors who […]
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Tourist injured after falling off the walls. Four broken ribs, a punctured lung, among other injuries, are in poor health to Jefferson David Rodríguez Marín. The electrician, 26, a native of Medellin, is admitted to the New Hospital Bocagrande since 25 December after falling from a wall cordon sector in the historic center, near Café […]
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