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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. 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 ...

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

... Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Miami and in the central Colombian town of Puerto Gaitán. Notable among them are two former officials of the government's Technical Investigation Corp (CTI), the entity that ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Washington rethinking the war on drugs
(U.S./Nation)

... is expected to have more of a focus on demand reduction than its predecessors. In some ways, like the plan to use Colombian bases to launch attacks against narcotics operations there, President Barack ...

10. Colombian national pleads guilty to role in New Jersey Department of Corrections bid rigging and kickback scheme
(N.J./State)

A Colombian national pleaded guilty Monday to assisting suspended state Department of Corrections administrator Gerald T. Kennedy in a bid rigging and kickback scheme involving hundreds of thousands of ...

11. Coca-Cola in spotlight for negative treatment of workers and environment
(U.S./Nation)

... of the Colombian trade union Sinaltrainal, several of its members, and the estate of Isidro Gil, one of its officers who was murdered. Coca-Cola bottlers "contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary ...

12. Fidel Castro upset with Obama over U.S. agreement with Colombia
(World/International)

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama over a U.S. agreement with Colombia that allows American troops access to Colombian military bases. In a column published ...

13. A mixed bag for relations between Cuba and the United States
(World/International)

... Sept. 20 Peace Without Borders concert organized by Colombian pop star Juanes. Williams, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Cuba in decades, also toured an area of Pinar del Río province, 160 ...

14. Russian arms shopping spree by Hugo Chavez concerns the United States
(World/International)

... Chavez said he is buying more arms because his government feels threatened by the U.S.- Colombian agreement last month to give U.S. forces access to several Colombian military bases to combat regional ...

15. Columbian drug kingpin arraigned in Union County
(N.J./State)

... Cleves could face up to 170 years in prison. The Prosecutor's Office worked closely with Colombian authorities over the last several years to get Cleves on American soil and into a courtroom. In fact, ...

16. EPA attorneys criticize Obama nominee Ignacia Moreno
(U.S./Nation)

... defend DynCorp against charges from an Ecuadorean community that claims the defense contractor sprayed residents with a dangerous herbicide used to control the growth of coca along the Colombian border. ...

17. N.J.'s Howard, Altidore key USA's stunning upset of Spain
(Sports/Professional)

... that victory over El Pibe and the Colombians was on American soil. The wins over Portugal and Mexico in 2002 were impressive and important, but again, the days when Mexico held dominion over the U.S. ...