Posted on November 20, 2008 by Colin Brayton
RUN (ON) DMG: Family, fatherland and easy money are featured in talking headshot of David Murcia Guzmán, looking oddly presidential as he addresses the Colombian nation on the integrity of his business. Source: EL TIEMPO.
Murcia was captured, it seems, while trying to enter Costa Rica, which has no extradition treaty with Colombia, in a bid [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Colin Brayton
I track maybe 300 news items a week from a panoply of open sources, digging for business intelligence. It’s a part-time gig, it pays the bills for the time being, it is, as Daffy Duck famously said — wiping the pie off his face — a living.
My client is extremely enthusiastic about the use of [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Colin Brayton
ONG Artigo 19 expressa solidariedade à família de Luiz Carlos Barbon: Article 19 releases a note in support of the family of a rural São Paulo journalist assassinated in that trademark death-squad style — two guys on a motorcycle — in 2007. See
Rural São Paulo Journalist Murdered; Outed Lurid Corruption Scheme
IMPRENSA magazine reports.
The last I [...]
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