Mining deaths in Colombia triple in 2010
The number of miners killed at work in 2010 tripled compared to the year before, the country’s mining authority announced on Thursday. According to government mining agency Geominas, 155 miners…
The number of miners killed at work in 2010 tripled compared to the year before, the country’s mining authority announced on Thursday. According to government mining agency Geominas, 155 miners…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday thanked Colombia for sending aid for victims of heavy rains that killed 31 people in the Caribbean coast of the socialist country. Chavez expressed…
Colombia’s new prosecutor general postponed the court hearing wherein former DAS director Maria del Pilar Hurtado and former President Alvaro Uribe’s chief of staff Bernardo Moreno will be charged for…
Colombia’s new Prosecutor General Viviane Morales rejects ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s criticism of the justice system in remarks made to Caracol Radio. Uribe admitted earlier Thursday that he had advised former…
Colombia’s peso on Thursday jumped the most in seven months on speculation dollar flows into the South American nation will rise after the European Central Bank delayed its withdrawal of…
Panama authorities arrested five Colombians suspected of belonging to the FARC in an indigenous region near the border, reports EFE. The five suspected Colombian guerrillas were detained, along with one Panamanian,…
Colombia’s flower producers say that 2010’s severe weather has been devastating to the industry and that production for next year’s Valentine’s Day will be far lower than usual, reports RCN.…
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday admitted to advising several of his former aides to seek political asylum abroad amid criminal investigations for corruption and the illegal wiretapping of…
A string of rebel leaders have deserted the FARC, stealing money from secret hiding places and leaving the guerrillas worried about their future, El Tiempo reported Thursday. “Cachirri,” finance chief of…