Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 17, 2011 | News
Colombian President Manuel Santos said Wednesday leftist rebels in his country have been weakened but remain a threat, underscoring the need for more efforts to root out violence to help improve the economic climate....
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Colombia’s state-run oil company, is set to complete Wednesday a $1.4 billion public offering that has been dogged by the recent turmoil in financial markets and a slump in crude prices. The company, which started a COP2.5...
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Canada-based energy firm Drift Lake Resources Inc. said it will take a minority stake in a promising oil block in Colombia operated by another Canadian firm, Petrodorado Energy Ltd. Under the agreement, Drift Lake unit Sintana...
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The top ten most expensive cities Oslo Zurich Geneva Copenhagen Stockholm Tokyo Sydney Helsinki Toronto Singapore Colombia’s capital Bogota is the fourth most expensive city in Latin America, a study by Swiss bank UBS...
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Former Colombian senator Piedad Cordoba on Tuesday asked guerrilla groups FARC and ELN to jointly take part in a dialogue with her peace activist group “Colombians for Peace.” Cordoba did so in an open letter to the...
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