Poverty falls in Colombia, LatAm: UN
Colombia’s poverty rate has fallen by 10% in eight years, following a Latin American trend, said a United Nations report released Wednesday. The Social Panorama of Latin America, by the Economic…
Colombia’s poverty rate has fallen by 10% in eight years, following a Latin American trend, said a United Nations report released Wednesday. The Social Panorama of Latin America, by the Economic…
The unemployment rate in Colombia for October 2011 was 9%, down from 10.2% for the same month in 2010, according to a report published Wednesday by Colombia’s national statistics agency…
The Colombian government has definitively “closed the door” to the possibility of future demobilized fighters being able to participate in politics. The Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras said the proposed…
Colombian business leaders lobbied Congress to pass 2005 legislation leading to the demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC, a demobilized member told Caracol Radio Tuesday. “Gonzalo,” the political chief for one…
A court ordered the Colombian state Tuesday to pay damages to the family of a sociologist murdered in an intelligence agency conspiracy. The Administrative Court of the Atlantico department ordered…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez secretly invited him to capture FARC Secretariat member “Ivan Marquez,” who is suspected to be on Venezuelan territory. In an…
Pacific Rubiales, the largest private oil producer in Colombia, announced Monday the company’s credit rating has been increased by two ratings agencies. The Canadian company’s “Corporate Family Rating” was upgraded…
Colombian civilian organizations are planning a march against terrorism and violence in response to the recent killing of four FARC hostages. The “Global Mobilization for the Liberty of all Hostages,”…
At least $31 million has been squandered or diverted from Colombia’s mining sector according to a royalties audit, Colombia media reported Tuesday. The preliminary results of the audit by Colombia’s Comptroller…