Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 23, 2012 | Economy
Colombian stocks were down 1.37% in morning trading Monday, tracking a global sell-off linked to jitters over Spain’s higher borrowing costs. The Colcap index, the benchmark for Colombia’s blue-chip stocks, fell...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 23, 2012 | Economy
Laborers at Colombia’s main coal railway went on strike on Monday over pay and working conditions, the company and a senior union official said, threatening to paralyze more than one-half of shipments from the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 21, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made his first attempt his first public attempt to re-establish confidence between government and lawmakers Friday at the inauguration of a new legislative year. The relations between the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 20, 2012 | News
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday congratulated Colombia on the 202nd anniversary of the country’s independence from Spain. “On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 19, 2012 | Disinformation
The central Colombian town of Rionegro has offered the army and the FARC to use its run-down stadium to continue the country’s 50-year old war. Both the armed forces and the FARC have increasingly received resistance from...
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