Colombian paramilitary former chief surrenders to authorities
Posted by: kingston23
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-17 09:15:56 -0700 | odd-news
A former chief paramilitary in Colombia, Jorge Humberto Victoria alias "Don Raul", surrendered to authorities. Victoria belonged to the United Self-Defense Forces and was the former head of the block paramilitary Centaurs (five years demobilized under a peace agreement with...
Peru and Bolivia will meet to measure military spendings
Posted by: crown62
La Paz :: Bolivia | updated 2012-02-18 17:03:00 -0800 | odd-news
On Monday and Tuesday, May and December 6 respectively, will be held in the city of La Paz (Bolivia) a meeting between Peru and Bolivia in the framework of the Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (2 +2). This appointment will...
Facebook: Friend Requests From Your Unborn Child?
Posted by: Surya Gaire
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-26 01:48:43 -0700 | odd-news
It’s bad enough getting friend requests from your parents or your older relatives. But a Facebook friend request from your non-existent, unborn child? We've all had those friend requests on Facebook from people we don't know that leave us wondering...
Venezuela feels "persecuted" by the IACHR
Posted by: kingston23
Maracaibo :: Venezuela | updated 2012-04-17 09:16:47 -0700 | odd-news
Venezuela on Thursday complained of being subject to "unfair persecution" in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.The Venezuelan representative to the Court objected to the high number of cases that are supported by the regional court."We insist that everything is...
Arrested Colombian girl's abduction
Posted by: kingston23
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-07-20 17:11:28 -0700 | odd-news
Colombian police said Wednesday the arrest of three suspects responsible for kidnapping the girl Valentina Muñoz Nohora last September. According to authorities, this is FARC, what was to prove the involvement of the guerrilla organization in the kidnapping of the...
$4.8 billion Peru gold mine project suspended
Posted by: kingston23
Lima :: Peru | updated 2012-05-22 12:39:50 -0700 | odd-news
The company, which planned to build a huge gold mine in Peru open the project announced that it will stop after several days of protests.The President of the Office of Newmont Peru, Carlos Santa Cruz, made the announcement after several...
Chilean Government proposes ,remove the municipalities control of public schools
Posted by: kingston23
Bulnes :: Chile | updated 2012-04-17 09:17:23 -0700 | odd-news
Chilean Education Minister, Felipe Bulnes, announced the submission to Congress of a bill to remove the municipalities control of public schools, one of the major demands of the student demonstrations. "We feel that the bill we are presenting is a...
The incredible story of a woman of 30 years with a baby's body.(Video)
Posted by: Vicky247
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2012-04-19 12:38:09 -0700 | odd-news
"Maria Audenete do Nascimento suffers a severe hypothyroidism which affected her growth. She was born in May 1981, but stopped growing at 9 months of life . Watch the video." The Strange Case surprises everyone in rural Brazilian state of...
Colombian hostage as a national hero
Posted by: kingston23
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-17 09:17:38 -0700 | odd-news
A Colombian police sergeant who was held hostage by leftist guerrillas of the FARC for 12 years was reunited with his family and was hailed as a national hero by President Juan Manuel Santos.Sergeant Luis Alberto Erazo was rescued on...
After the death of four hostages, the Pope called cessation of violence in Colombia
Posted by: kingston23
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-05-21 11:04:40 -0700 | odd-news
Pope Benedict XVI expressed his "sorrow" after learning of the execution by the four hostages the FARC and implored the cessation of violence in Colombia, said the Colombian ambassador to the Holy See, Cesar Mauricio Velasquez."The Holy Father received this...
Rio de Janeiro Inaugurates the World's Largest Floating Christmas tree
Posted by: karasiwo
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-28 01:57:00 -0700 | odd-news
The Christmas tree world's largest floating lit up at night this Saturday at the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro. The act that lit fir 85 meters high and 542 tons was enlivened by the Barra Mansa Symphony...
Run away 82 prisoners in prison in northeastern Brazil
Posted by: saadkhan
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2012-04-07 09:52:53 -0700 | odd-news
The inmates escaped Friday night through a hole in the roof of one of the prisons, told reporters Joaquim Rodrigues, head of the city police."It was raining heavily at that time, and none of the guards heard a strange noise,"...
'Alien Skull' found in Peru: Reality behind the latest internet buzz
Posted by: madn3wz
Andahuaylillas :: Peru | updated 2012-07-28 02:00:26 -0700 | odd-news
ANDAHUAYLILLAS, Peru - Peruvian anthropologist Renato Davila Riquelme has discovered the remains of an unidentified creature with a "triangle shaped" mummified elongated skull nearly as large as its 20-inch-tall body in the city of Andahuaylillas in the southern province of...
Graveyard of whales in the Chilean desert
Posted by: prabirghose
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2012-07-28 03:52:12 -0700 | odd-news
Scientists of Chile along with researchers of the Smithsonian institute have stumbled upon a huge grave of prehistoric whales … the fossils are believed to be 2 and 7 million years old and lie side by side. There are quite...
China gives billionaire credit to produce oil in Venezuela
Posted by: kingston23
Maracaibo :: Venezuela | updated 2012-04-17 09:18:12 -0700 | odd-news
Venezuela's government said Tuesday it will receive a credit of U.S. $ 4,000 China million for oil extraction. The money is intended to increase production capacity sinovenezolanas companies in the Orinoco Belt. The aim of the agreement is production of...
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