Colombia

THE BROTHER OF COLOMBIAN DRUGS BARON PABLO ESCOBAR TALKS TO THE METRO

March 25, 2009

Roberto Escobar In an interview with The Metro Newspaper Roberto Escobar, brother of the late notorious drugs baron Pablo Escobar, talks about his brother, how his brother’s choices in life affected his family and the autobiography Escobar. Roberto became the accountant for the Medellín Cartel and later went on to become a professional cyclist and an electrical engineer.  Why have you written this book? I am dedicated to finding a cure for people with HIV and Aids so this book is to raise funds to patent the product […]

WOMAN DUBBED THE FEMALE ‘RAMBO’ CAPTURED BY COLOMBIAN FORCES IN WAR ON DRUGS

May 20, 2008

One of Colombia’s most renowned rebel fighters, and the guerrillas’ senior female commander, has surrendered in yet another victory for the US-backed war policy of Oxford-educated President Alvaro Uribe. Half-starved and wounded Nelly Avila Moreno, better known by her guerrilla alias ‘Karina’, surrendered to the secret police, the DAS, ending one of the legends of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). A glance at Karina shows why she was known as a female ‘Rambo’ in the FARC. She has lost the […]