Former vice minister to jail over agriculture subsidy
Colombia’s former vice minister of Agriculture was sent to jail for his part in the AIS agriculture subsidy scandal that saw wealthy land and business owners receive large payments intended…
Colombia’s former vice minister of Agriculture was sent to jail for his part in the AIS agriculture subsidy scandal that saw wealthy land and business owners receive large payments intended…
Colombian singer Aiko has been chosen out of hundreds of Latin American artists to perform at the Billboard Latin American Conference on April 25, reported music news site Farandula. The…
Spanish companies will become vital investors in Colombian infrastructure projects stated Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday after his meeting with the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.…
$2.47 million worth of counterfeit American bills were seized from a clandestine money printing factory in Bogota, reported Radio Santa Fe. The Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Monday that their…
Colombia’s Chief of National Police General Oscar Naranjo has said that while the homicide rate in Bogota has fallen, citizens still feel unsafe in their city due to incomplete public…
The scandal-hit AIS agricultural subsidy program has returned under a new name with strict precautions to ensure the money is delivered to where its needed, Caracol Radio reported on Monday.…
A man suspected of being a link between Colombia’s largest guerrilla group the FARC and the Spanish terrorist group ETA has been captured in Caucasia, Antioquia department, and is to…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez to Colombia at Cartagena airport on Saturday morning. Upon arriving in the coastal city at around 11:00AM Saturday,…
Racist undercurrents, discrimination and segregation are still plaguing the Colombian capital of Bogota, newspaper El Espectador reported Saturday. In the International Year of African Descendants, the news comes as a…