Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 14, 2010 | News
Colombia ranked 52nd of 65 in the 2009 PISA education survey, carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The survey, based on two-hour tests of half a million 15-year-olds, tested...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
U.S. rockers Paramore confirm they will play in Colombian capital Bogota in March. The band will be performing in the South American city for the first time in their six-year existence. The popular teen-punk rockers are coming...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 13, 2010 | News
Colombia will issue a decree obliging inhabitants of flood-struck areas in the north of the country to evacuate when ordered by authorities., says the Interior and Justice Minister. According to Minister German Vargas Lleras,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 13, 2010 | News
Former members of Colombia’s armed forces train members of Mexican drug cartel Familia Michoacana, Mexican newspaper La Razon reported on Monday. The newspaper based its allegations on reports by U.S. drug authorities and...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 13, 2010 | News
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says U.S. officials told him they had been warned that he would lead a coup if the Constitutional Court did not approve his second re-election. In an interview with newspaper El...
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