Posted 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...
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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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 15, 2012 | News
The Colombian Air Force (FAC) aircraft that crashed in FARC-controlled territory was not shot down as claimed by the guerrillas, the air force said Saturday after having inspected the plane. According to the FAC, “the...
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