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1. Jairo Camacho arrested for being a fake dentist in Elizabeth
(N.J./State)

Police arrested a Colombian native last week and charged him with running an illegal dentistry practice out of an apartment in Elizabeth, said Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow. Jairo Camacho, 30, was ...

2. U.S. soccer team showed world a better side of America
(Sports/Professional)

... moments of infamy on the international sporting stage go a long way towards clouding perceptions. Colombia, in light of the murder of Andres Escobar following the 1994 World Cup, is still regarded as a ...

3. Former N.J. corrections official Gerald Kennedy of Red Bank gets 7 years for rigging state contracts
(N.J./State)

... admitted he steered state contracts totaling about $348,000 to Pro General Contracting Inc., also known as Pro Painting & General Contracting Inc. Jasher Guerrero Ramos, 50, a Colombian national who ...

4. Drugs and football connected in Colombia
(World/International)

BY HELDA MARTÍNEZ IPS NEWS AGENCY BOGOTÁ — Football, the most popular sport in Colombia, has been subject to heavy pressures from drug trafficking since the mid-1970s. A new study shows that the illicit ...

5. Murder in Peru could break Joran van der Sloot in Natalee Holloway case
(World/International)

... her neck broken in a hotel room registered to Van der Sloot. Police say Van der Sloot checked into the hotel room May 14 after arriving on a flight from Colombia, said the chief of Peru's criminal police, ...

6. Osvaldo Ríos brings controversy to N.Y. Puerto Rican Day Parade
(U.S./Nation)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM New York City Council members and a state Assembly member are saying, "no tenemos amor por Osvaldo Ríos," model and Colombian Telenovela star after learning that ...

7. Mockus is Chavez's candidate
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

As we can see, Chavez is investing millions stolen from Venezuelans to demonize Santos and support his candidate, Mockus. “Economy, not security” as a key Colombian issue is typical of the campaigns organized ...

8. Red Bulls, NYC Police heading to Peru to help kids through soccer
(Sports/Professional)

... city of New York. This program has had great success in the past as we have travelled to countries like Ecuador and Colombia, which we visited last year. Our goal is to visit countries in South and Central ...

9. The Tragedy of British Petroleum is more than an environmental disaster
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  A goodly portion of our imports are from friendly sources such as Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Norway, and Colombia. The rest is from nations that either hate us (Venezuela) or are politically ...

10. Colombian drug kingpin Alejandro Cleves pleads guilty in N.J.
(N.J./State)

... to a charge of 1st Degree leader of a narcotics trafficking network. Prosecutor Theodore J. Romanow, who spent several years working with the Colombian government to secure Cleves' arrest, announced ...

11. Mockus President, May 30/10
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Mockus President, May 30/10. WELCOME COLOMBIA TO THE XXI CENTURY! Thanks to New Voters that say: NO MORE CORRUPTION! With the help of Facebook, YES, WE CAN! ...

12. Facebook fueling Antanas Mockus’ Colombian presidential campaign
(World/International)

ANALYSIS BY JAVIER DARÍO RESTREPO IPS NEWS AGENCY BOGOTA — Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus of the Green Party has been gaining as many as 10,000 new fans a day on Facebook. From just ...

13. Revolutionary Times Weekend kicks off by welcoming 40 new U.S. citizens
(Entertainment/Movies)

... about other activities scheduled for the weekend. Carlos Pabon, a native of Colombia, now residing in Randolph told The Star-Ledger, "This country offers many opportunities. It's a free country where ...

14. Growing in Grace’s ‘Man Jesus Christ’ reaching an international audience
(World/International)

... Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, the United States and Spain. Cestero says that there are at least 3,000 members ...

15. $1 million a week drug dealer Vicente Esteves of Manalapan pleads guilty
(N.J./State)

... and money laundering organization that funneled as much as 1,000 kilos of cocaine a week into New Jersey and other states from countries, including Colombia and Mexico using two corporations Esteves owned ...

16. Financial crisis hasn’t stopped countries from investing in arms
(World/International)

... reasons for this, including regional rivalries (Colombia-Venezuela, India-Pakistan, Turkey-Greece, China-Taiwan, etc); surplus state revenues; the need for militaries to replace ageing equipment, etc. ...

17. Shakira, Eva Longoria, Ricky Martin, others come out in support of Chile
(World/International)

... Canadian-American comedian Jim Carrey, Jessica Alba and Eva Longoria — both of Latin descent — and singers such as Juanes and Shakira, both from Colombia, Ricky Martin of Puerto Rico, Laura Pausini of ...

18. Women’s rights losing ground around the world
(World/International)

... while Colombia has voided its discriminatory law setting 14 years as the minimum age of marriage for boys and 12 years for girls. And Pakistan has removed the evidentiary requirement of four male ...

19. Mistaken terror scare diverts Continental Airlines flight
(World/International)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A Continental Airlines flight bound for Bogotá, Colombia had to be diverted to Jacksonville, Florida Friday after a passenger was mistakenly identified as having ...

20. Evidence that al-Qaeda is funding terror operations with drugs
(U.S./Nation)

... which informants and agents posed as Colombian narco-terrorists who claimed they shared hatred for the United States with the African suspects. According to the NACOP report, Colombian drug kingpins ...