HEADLINES: Fiscalia discovers evidence politicians in Sucre received money from AUC paramilitaries. A man at a Medellin financial institute takes hostages in exchange for a flower boquet. Colombian Coast Guard chases a group of drug smugglers to Panama. South African experts sentence Pablo Escobar's hippos to death. A gang of debit card cloners is arrested in Atlantico. Plus, check out Tunja's International Culture Festival.