Ministering Among Guerillas and Drug Fields (Zenit News Agency)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:14:15 GMT
SAN JOSÉ DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia, MARCH 10, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- Most bishops don't have to pay for permission to visit their flocks, but Bishop Guillermo Orozco Montoya was expected to. He refused.
Catch him if you can — Rico Suave, the thief who was a hit at Oscars (Times Online)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:09 GMT
To the Los Angeles Police Department he is known simply as “Rico Suave”.
Man who shot himself and ex-wife in 2008 dies (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:52:59 GMT
A man who authorities say stabbed and shot his ex-wife to death after an acrimonious divorce almost two years ago and then tried to kill himself with a shotgun has died.
Fake fruit conceals cocaine cargo in Netherlands (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:57:31 GMT
First it was drugs among the flowers. Now, drug traffickers have stuffed real drugs into fake fruit in an effort to smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands, authorities said Wednesday.
Gary Shapiro: President Obama, Free the Panama and Colombia Trade Agreements! (The Huffington Post)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:44:35 GMT
President Obama announced a worthy goal during his January State of the Union address: double exports in five years. The goal is clear, specific, has...
Jail for drug mule after plea bargain (The Star)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:13:50 GMT
A Drug mule who swallowed 57 bullets of cocaine and hid four more in his socks to smuggle from Colombia to South Africa was sentenced to an effective five years' imprisonment by the Pretoria Regional Court yesterday after he reached a plea agreement with the State.
Jail for drug mule after plea bargain (Independent Online)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:38 GMT
A Drug mule who swallowed 57 bullets of cocaine and hid four more in his socks to smuggle from Colombia to South Africa, has been sentenced.
Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:19:05 GMT
Q1: On March 1, the State Department released the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), whose country report on Colombia estimated a large decline in coca cultivation and cocaine production potential in 2008. How significant is this? read more
FARC rebels say waiting to free Colombian hostages (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:57:46 GMT
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels said on Monday they were waiting for the armed forces to provide security guarantees for the release of two hostages whom guerrilla commanders promised to hand over nearly a year ago.
U.S. Treasury acts against Colombia drug traffickers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:11:40 GMT
Some of Colombia's most-wanted drug traffickers were among 78 people the U.S. Treasury Department took action against on Tuesday because of their roles in international narcotics trafficking.
