Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 24, 2013 | War and peace
If peace talks between Colombia’s government and the country’s largest rebel group FARC stop producing results, the government will abandon the negotiations, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday. “The way...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 20, 2013 | Economy
Colombia has the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market according to analysts. According to a report published Monday from mobile app analytics company, Flurry, the Colombian smartphone market has grown 278 percent in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 19, 2013 | News
Former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe said Monday he will run for senator in 2014 “if the conditions require” him to. While visiting a town in his home department of Antioquia, the former head of state said that...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 18, 2013 | News
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday congratulated Rafael Correa of Ecuador for his reelection as president. In a Tweet, the center-right Santos wished his socialist counterpart “lots of success”...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 16, 2013 | News
Rebel group FARC on Saturday released a soldier who had been captured in combat in the southwest of Colombia late last month. The 19-year old Soldier Josue Alvarez was released in Policarpa, the same municipality in the...
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