Colombia: 9 soldiers killed in attack ELN
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-23 00:48:37 -0700 | disasters-news
BOGOTA, Colombia - Nine soldiers were killed in an attack by members of the rebel National Liberation Army in an area of northeastern Colombia, in one of the largest insurgent group actions against the police. Initially President Juan Manuel Santos...
Some 58 people were kidnapped in the first quarter of 2013 in Colombia
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-20 00:12:22 -0700 | disasters-news
The Colombian NGO Fundación País Libre reported today that in the first quarter of 2013 were abducted 58 people, representing a reduction of 40% compared with the same period last year, when there were 97 cases. The Free Country Foundation,...
Could South America end its participation in the war on drugs? Fears horrific human cost of tackling ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-19 07:33:48 -0700 | disasters-news
19 May 2013 Latin American countries could stop deploying law enforcement agencies to fight cartels after concluding that the human costs of the 'war on drugs' is just too high. That is just one of the scenarios envisaged in a...
Colombia : The army killed four guerrillas of the ELN
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-17 19:53:19 -0700 | disasters-news
BOGOTA - The army said on Wednesday killed four guerrillas of the ELN and a guerrilla wounded in a clash in the country's northeast. Gen. Ricardo Gómez Nieto, commander of the army's XVI Brigade said by telephone that the four...
Colombia: increasing threats against journalists
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-17 19:53:19 -0700 | disasters-news
BOGOTA, Colombia - Guilds newspaper reported on Tuesday an increase of threats and pressures on reporters whose latest chapter was the revelation of a senior official over a plan to assassinate a prominent journalist and two researchers. From May 1...
Post-attack, top reporter worries his cover blown
Source: Associated Press
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-10 10:10:37 -0700 | disasters-news
His exclusives have triggered some of Colombia's biggest scandals, leading to the dismissals, arrests and prosecutions of dozens of crooked, sometimes murderous public officials. Yet in this age of social media saturation and in-your-face journalistic ego, Ricardo Calderon continues to...
Road Warrior: MVC lines much, much shorter no longer needed at MVC
Source: Twin Boro News
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-07 23:18:13 -0700 | disasters-news
It took just 15 minutes for Gail Hughes to renew her driver's license at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission office in Lodi last week eight times quicker than the two- and three-hour waits that thousands of customers were forced...
Jose Crisanto Gómez who cared for a child kidnapped by FARC Sentenced to 33 years in jail
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-04-25 08:10:51 -0700 | disasters-news
The High Court of the Colombian city of Villavicencio (Centro) today condemned to 33 years in prison the farmer Jose Crisanto Gómez, who nursed the son of Clara Rojas, who was kidnapped by the FARC during six. Joseph Crisanto, whose...
Road Warrior: Not all 1964 birthers can skip MVC's trip Trip' skips a mystified driver
Source: Passaic Valley Today
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-04-23 23:27:54 -0700 | disasters-news
While enduring triple doses of chemotherapy at least once a week, the last thing a breast-cancer patient needs is to stand on a long Motor Vehicle Commission line. So Gail Hughes was surprised when the driver's license renewal notice she...
Colombia: Man arrested with thousands of dollars in stomach
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-04-23 12:48:00 -0700 | disasters-news
BOGOTA, Colombia - A Mexican citizen was arrested at the airport in the capital after the Customs Police found in his stomach brought an estimated $ 100,000 packaged in latex gloves fingers are officially reported Friday. "He found this Mexican...
Five FARC guerrillas and two soldiers killed in clash in southern Colombia
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-04-15 11:20:21 -0700 | disasters-news
Five guerrillas and two soldiers were killed after an armed clash in a rural Colombian department of Caquetá (south), where the authorities were conducting operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the military said. A report of the...
Colombia: two killed by grenade attack
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-03-24 22:13:45 -0700 | disasters-news
BOGOTA, Colombia - Two people were killed and seven wounded when a man threw a grenade at a billiards room, police said Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday night in San Sebastian billiards city of Cucuta, 400 kilometers northeast of...
Colombia : Terrorist attack leaves 1 dead and 14 wounded
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-03-06 20:47:32 -0800 | disasters-news
Authorities in La Dorada San Miguel, in the department of Putumayo, on Monday reported the explosion of a bomb on a police patrol, leaving one civilian dead and fourteen wounded. The terrorist attack, attributed to the FARC, left among his...
ELN keep Canadian hostage
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-03-09 15:55:41 -0800 | disasters-news
BOGOTA - The Colombian ELN guerrillas on Monday confirmed its intention to hold a Canadian citizen kidnapped Jernoc Wobert unique mining worker who remains in captivity Geo Explorer after the release Friday of five engineers and geologists. "The Canadian is,"...
Seven military rebels killed in Colombia
Posted by: rsa76
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-03-03 13:13:16 -0800 | disasters-news
At least seven soldiers of the Colombian army were killed and five others were injured in clashes with the rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the south. The fighting took place in the course of the...
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