Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2013 | Economy
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos met with business leaders Friday to discuss possible measures to curb the appreciation of the country’s peso against the dollar. According to the president, he and employers primarily...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office said Friday that members of rebel group FARC carried out 57 attacks during the 60-day of ceasefire due to end on Sunday. Ombudsman Jorge Armando Otalora told radio station Caracol that...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2013 | News
Colombia’s second largest rebel group ELN has kidnapped five gold mine employees to force the government to include the guerrillas in peace talks currently held with the larger FARC group, said the country’s military...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 17, 2013 | News
Two Colombian soldiers have been arrested after they were caught transporting half a ton of cocaine, authorities said Thursday. The lieutenant and his subordinate were caught with 410 kilograms of the illicit drug at the check...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 17, 2013 | Lite
A man from the north of Colombia is trying real hard to convince local authorities he is not dead. Samir Enrique Almanza from the tiny village of Chinu found out about his own death when picking up drugs at a local hospital....
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