Colombian kids used in black market fuel trade
Criminal gangs use Colombian children to sell illegal gasoline said Caracol Television, Monday. According to the report children between the ages of 12 and 15 are paid $6.75 a day…
Criminal gangs use Colombian children to sell illegal gasoline said Caracol Television, Monday. According to the report children between the ages of 12 and 15 are paid $6.75 a day…
Former Prosecutor General Luis Camilo Osorio is called to testify in Congress over his alleged links to paramilitary groups, said local media Sunday. Osorio, who held office from 2001-2005, has…
Colombia’s largest airline Avianca reported $111 million net earnings for 2011 said local media Monday. The report marked a financial turn around for Avianca, which reported a $6 million loss…
Canadian mining companies Colombian Mines Corporation and Teck Resources Limited announced a $15.5 million joint venture in Colombia, said their press release Friday. The project aims to develop mining in Colombian…
Previous Colombian president Alvaro Uribe said Thursday that Colombia is less secure under the current government of Juan Manuel Santos. In an interview with Teleantioquica, Uribe accused the current government…
Police reported 282 kidnappings occurred in Colombia in 2011, an increase of 28% compared to the year before. In 2010 220 kidnappings were registered in Colombia, and the first rise in kidnapping…
A Medellin court in sentenced “El Cebollero,” to 32 and a half years in prison for money laundering, reported local media Wednesday. On top of laundering money, El Cebollero, whose…
Colombia’s Radical Change Party named former Barranquilla Mayor Alejandro Char as their new president, said local media Wednesday. Char replaced Carlos Fernando Galan who retired as president last December. Radical Changes’…
Bernardo Moreno, former President Alvaro Uribe’s then-chief of staff ordered the illegal wiretapping of judges, senators, and journalists, the former intelligence chief of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency DAS told the…