Terrified silence on front line of a drug-fuelled war
Andres Segura is on his beat in Barrancabermeja, an oil-refinery town 200 miles north of Bogota, the capital of Colombia. To help him patrol outlying neighbourhoods, where rebels are fighting for...
View ArticleFor 5,000 poor townspeople, stolen gas is their calling
BARRANCABERMEJA, Colombia, Dec 10, 2002 (Knight Ridder Newspapers - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service via COMTEX) -- Children, the elderly, the barefoot - the desperate - trek along the streets of the...
View ArticleArmy: Colombian civilians used as shields
Soldiers carry the bodies of 14 paramilitaries of the outlawed Central Bolivar Bloc, or BCB, at a military base in Barrancabermeja, 200 miles north of Bogota, Thursday, March 25, 2004. The...
View ArticleParamilitaries reemerge in pockets of Colombia
Sandra Gutierrez Torres has a dangerous job. She helps run a grass-roots human rights organization in Colombia's oil capital, Barrancabermeja, and last month her work may have cost the life of her...
View ArticleLots of oil and gas in Colombia, but few buyers
Bogota, Jan 20, (IANS/EFE): Colombia has large deposits of oil and gas but very few buyers, the country's energy minister said while announcing a $10-billion investment plan in the sector this year....
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