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BUENAVENTURA, Colombia (AP) — Officers wade through rows of abandoned wooden homes teetering above a mangrove-cloaked river – one of the key channels used by gangs to move drugs and weapons ...
Buenaventura is a coastal seaport city located in the Pacific Region of the department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia (South America). Buenaventura (Spanish for "good adventure") is the main port of Colombia in the Pacific Ocean. [2] As of the 2018 census, Buenaventura has a population of 235,064. [3]
It is believed the cocaine is shipped from around the neighboring Colombian Departments as well as Peru and other South American countries before being transported again via trucks and airplanes to the Pacific Coast port of Buenaventura, Colombia. From Buenaventura the cocaine, through Renterías' operation, is primary transported to Mexico ...
Valle del Cauca, or Cauca Valley (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaʎe ðel ˈkawka]), is a department in western Colombia abutting the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Santiago de Cali. Other cities such as Buenaventura, Buga, Cartago, Palmira and Tuluá have great economical
Butterflies with New Wings Building a Future (Spanish: Red Mariposas de Alas Nuevas Construyendo Futuro) is a non-profit organization from Buenaventura, Colombia. The organization is a self-help group of forcibly displaced, local women. The organization was established in 2010. It consists of nine women's rights groups. [1]
Colombia's Supreme Court approved Quintero's extradition on June 28, 2011. [29] He was extradited on December 12, 2011. [ 30 ] On November 21, 2012, South Florida judge William P. Dimitrouleas sentenced Quintero to 210 months (17 years) in federal prison on charges of conspiring to import cocaine to the United States.
August 10: An explosion in the north of Colombia's capital Bogotá left ten people wounded. The police blamed the FARC for the attack. The police blamed the FARC for the attack. September 1: Four people were killed and around 26 more were wounded by a car bomb in the Colombian city of Cali in one of the worst urban attacks in Colombia.
Juanita Urrea was born in Armenia, Quindío on September 13, 2000. She is the only child of Andrea Posada and the industrial engineer Alonso Urrea, during her childhood and youth she lived between Buenaventura, Cartago and finally Cali where she finished her high school studies at the Colegio Hispanoamericano.