Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 15, 2012 | News
Colombia is divided in two. One part of the country is producing and prosperous, while the other is suffering the consequences of an armed conflict that is far from over, the delegate of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia said...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 15, 2012 | Economy
An explosion on a railway line that feeds into Colombia’s biggest coal miner, Cerrejon, slowed transport between the mine and a Caribbean port in northern La Guajira province, local media reported Saturday. The attack on...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 15, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s central bank may step up dollar purchases to curb the appreciation of the country’s currency and create a “much higher” level of foreign reserves, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday. In...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 15, 2012 | News
Colombia condemns and rejects an attack of Syrian armed forces on a farming community that allegedly killed 150, the foreign minister said Saturday. According to a press release on the Foreign Ministry’s website,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 15, 2012 | Culture
A singer of the popular caribbean Champeta genre died Sunday, weeks after being the victim of an assassination attempt in the north of Colombia. The 30-year old John Hairo Sayas, who performed under the make of “El...
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