Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 11, 2011 | News
Former presidential candidate Antanas Mockus said Tuesday he wants his fellow Green Party member Enrique Peñalosa to choose between him and former President Alvaro Uribe, who has repeatedly supported Peñalosa to run for Bogota...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 11, 2011 | Economy
Consumer confidence in Colombia dropped 7.4 percentage points in April compared to the same month last year and 9.2 percentage points compared to March. According to a survey by Fedesarollo, the consumer confidence index went...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 11, 2011 | News
Rebels of the FARC have massacred five members of the same family on the border of the south-western Cauca and Nariño departments, an NGO said Tuesday. According to a member of the Justice and Peace Commission, the massacre took...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 11, 2011 | News
Authorities have captured a guerrilla believed responsible for the 1999 hijacking of a commercial airplane. The current political head of the ELN’s “Dario Ramirez Castro” front, Hernando Jose Molina Cartagena,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 11, 2011 | zSports
Spanish soccer team Real Madrid will return to Colombia for a friendly match against Bogota team Millonarios, local media said Wednesday. According to news website Terra, the event will be held sometime in the 2011-2012 season....
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