Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 28, 2012 | News
Colombia vows to increase the presence of police and military authorities on the Ecuadorean border to counter the activity of rebel and drug-trafficking groups in the region. “We have to strengthen the institutional...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 28, 2012 | News
Indigenous leaders in the southwest in Colombia on Friday suspended reconciliation talks with the government after the country’s ministers of interior and defense failed to attend the scheduled meeting. “We have...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 28, 2012 | News
Colombia’s central bank unexpectedly reduced its main interest rate Friday for the first time since 2010 amid signs the economy is at risk of a sharp downturn due to declining global prices for oil, the country’s top...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 27, 2012 | News
Colombia refused to cooperate with a Belgian investigation against the South American country, its former president, Alvaro Uribe, and its now-defunct intelligence agency DAS over the alleged illegal spying on European citizens,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 27, 2012 | News
Colombia’s vice president does not support an initiative by loyalists of former President Alvaro Uribe to amend the country’s constitution through a national constituent assembly, President Juan Manuel Santos said...
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