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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 05:58 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_Bloc
- The date is wrong. Credible accounts place the anti-Escobar unit’s origin in 1989, and the Bloque de Búsqueda by that name was constituted in August 1992 after Escobar escaped La Catedral.
- This is too restrictive: the name has been used for more than three police task forces. Contemporary reporting documented a separate Meta/Llanos Search Bloc in 2004, and the National Police officially launched another Bloque de Búsqueda in 2025.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 05:58 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Eagles
- This date is too late. Credible sources trace the emergence of Águilas Negras in Norte de Santander to 2005, not 2006.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 05:57 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Pablo_Escobar
- The Search Bloc was not simply “the Colombian Special Forces.” It was a specific ad hoc search unit led by police and other state personnel.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 05:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_se_legal_representation_in_the_Uni...
- This is too absolute. Indigent criminal defendants retain a right to appointed counsel on their first appeal as of right after conviction, and federal law also authorizes appointed counsel in some post-conviction proceedings.
- This is overbroad and incorrect. At least in federal practice, a § 2255 post-conviction motion is treated as a continuation of the criminal case, not a separate civil action.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 04:39 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fane_Lozman
- This misstates the Supreme Court's remand. The Court did not instruct the Eleventh Circuit simply to decide whether the City acted with animus; it sent the case back for consideration of several preserved issues under the Mt. Healthy framework.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 03:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog
- This date is wrong. Johan Christian Dahl did not begin his friendship with Friedrich in 1817; Dahl arrived in Dresden in September 1818, when their acquaintance began.
LessWrong May 18, 2026 at 03:39 PM
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- The two leads do not have equal expected value as written. Lead A’s expected value is $240 (0.8×300), while Lead B’s is $280 (0.2×1,400).
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:04 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisario_Betancur
- The award category is wrong. In 1983 Betancur received the Prince of Asturias Award for Latin-American Cooperation, later renamed International Cooperation, not a Peace Award.
- This overstates the toll on the Supreme Court. Contemporary and official sources say 11 magistrates were killed—about half of the court, not 'most' of it.
- This gets Cerrejón’s timeline wrong. Export shipments began during Betancur’s presidency, but the exploration stage started earlier, in 1977, before he took office.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:03 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Samper
- Samper was not the Non-Aligned Movement’s “Secretary General.” Official sources describe Colombia/Samper as chairing or presiding over the movement from 1995 to 1998.
- Miguel Samper Agudelo was not Ernesto Samper’s grandfather. A Colombian public-history biography identifies Miguel Samper Agudelo as Ernesto Samper’s tatarabuelo, while Daniel Samper Ortega was his grandfather.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Petro
- The timeline is off. Petro joined M-19 at age 17 (around 1977), and M-19 demobilized into the Democratic Alliance M-19 in 1990—about 13 years later, not 17.
- This reverses the sequence of events. Petro was released in 1987, before the 1990 peace agreement and demobilization of M-19, and then helped promote the peace talks.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_Barco_Vargas
- Barco did not become a Durania council member in 1943. Official biographies say that after returning in 1943 he held appointed departmental posts, and that his first run for elected office in Durania was in 1945.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos
- This is outdated: NOVA already awarded Santos the honorary doctorate on November 13, 2017.
- Harvard Kennedy School named Santos an Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow, not a “Fellowship program.”
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:01 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Uribe
- Uribe’s August 2020 house arrest was not ordered in the El Aro/La Granja massacre investigations. It was ordered in the separate witness-tampering/procedural-fraud case involving alleged efforts to influence witnesses.
- Uribe was not freed because the Supreme Court found a lack of evidence. A lower-court judge ordered his release, and explicitly said the ruling did not nullify the Supreme Court’s prior actions.
- UN investigators did not confirm a 2,000-body mass grave in Meta. They reported no evidence of a mass grave there, though they did find at least 446 unidentified people buried individually in the La Macarena municipal cemetery.
- Uribe was already mayor of Medellín by August 26, 1982, not October 1982. Contemporary and biographical sources place his assumption of office in August.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:01 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C%C3%A9sar_Turbay_Ayala
- This sentence conflates Diana Turbay’s kidnapping with her death. Reliable contemporaneous reports say she was kidnapped in August 1990 and died during a rescue operation on January 25, 1991.
- This overstates Colombia’s position in the Falklands/Malvinas war. U.S. State Department records say Colombia supported Argentina’s claim to the islands, while condemning Argentina’s invasion—not the British cause.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Gaviria
- This dates-and-company claim is impossible: Bancolombia did not exist until 1998, when BIC and Banco de Colombia merged.
- This office title is historically wrong. Gaviria was appointed Minister of Government in 1987; the Ministry of the Interior name was adopted in 1995, and the combined Interior-and-Justice ministry was created only in 2003.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Pastrana_Arango
- Mancuso's allegation concerned Pastrana's 1998 campaign, not a 2002 presidential campaign. Pastrana was already serving as president from 1998 to 2002, so he was not a presidential candidate in 2002.
- Pastrana was kidnapped in Bogotá, at his mayoral campaign headquarters, not in Antioquia. He was later taken to a finca in El Retiro, Antioquia during the captivity.
- The Non-Aligned Movement's leadership role is the chairmanship, not a secretary-generalship. Official NAM materials describe Colombia as holding the NAM chair from 1995 to 1998, with South Africa taking over the chair in 1998.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Carlos_Gal%C3%A1n
- Calling Galán’s assassination investigation "unsolved" is inaccurate. Colombia’s Supreme Court has upheld convictions against Alberto Santofimio and convicted former DAS chief Miguel Maza Márquez for co-authoring/facilitating the murder.
- The date is off, and the work is described too broadly. Sources from Semana and the Galán Foundation say the "Cleo Tilde" text was a biographical profile written in 1985, later published in 1994.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_Duque
- The protected status Duque announced was for Venezuelan migrants living in Colombia, not in Venezuela.
- This is incorrect: Colombia had already issued fracking regulations in 2013–2014, and its high court had suspended those rules by 2018, with the suspension still in force in 2019.
Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 06:59 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Colombia
- Cristina Pardo is not the current president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court. In 2026, the court’s president is Paola Andrea Meneses Mosquera.
- Luis Antonio Hernández is not the current president of Colombia’s Supreme Court of Justice. The court elected Iván Mauricio Lenis Gómez as president in January 2026.
- Aurelio Enrique Rodríguez is not the current president of Colombia’s Superior Council of the Judiciary. The Council elected Mary Lucero Novoa Moreno as president for 2026.
- This sentence cites the wrong constitutional article and wrong reform date. Colombia’s ban on presidential reelection is in Article 197, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2015, not Article 125 ‘ratified in 2018.’
LessWrong May 18, 2026 at 06:56 AM
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- This is too absolute. Forbes’ own rankings include Steve Ballmer, who became one of the world’s richest people after joining Microsoft as an employee and rising to CEO, not by founding the company or inheriting it.