Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 26, 2011 | zSports
Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas of Colombia grabbed 20 bonus points for gaining a lap on the peleton and won a key late sprint to win the points race at the track cycling world championships Friday. Avila Vanegas grinned and...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 25, 2011 | Lite
Colombian celebrity Milena Lopez thanked God Friday for her new job as host of the country’s stupidest television program, “Muy Buenos Dias” (Very Good Morning). Lopez was picked to host the show next to Laura...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 24, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 4.3% in 2010, a little below the 4.5% the government had anticipated. According to state statistics agency DANE, the economic growth was strongest in the last quarter of the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 24, 2011 | News
The Uribe administration in 2008 carefully planned the leaking of information from computers of killed FARC commander Raul Reyes to link Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to the rebel group,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Mar 24, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Supreme Court called the former governor of the Cauca department to trial to respond to allegations he made pacts with paramilitary death squads. Juan Jose Chaux Mosquera will have to stand trial for his alleged...
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