Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 23, 2012 | News
The Colombian government’s former “Plan Colombia” director calls allegations she had ties to extradited paramilitary warlord “Jorge 40” absurd after she appeared at the investigation hearing on her...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 23, 2012 | Economy
Colombian stocks inched higher Wednesday, driven by gains in state-run energy firm Ecopetrol SA (EC, ECOPETROL.BO), while the peso weakened slightly against the dollar. The Colcap index, the benchmark for Colombia’s most...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 22, 2012 | Caribbean
Barranquilla authorities said Wednesday that the city’s carnival drew more than a million people between Friday and Tuesday. In its final balance of the city’s most important cultural event of the year, the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 22, 2012 | Economy
The Central Bank of Colombia may raise its benchmark lending rate for a second straight month at its Friday meeting, a decision that would be spurred by fears that a boom in consumer credit could jeopardize the bank’s...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 22, 2012 | News
Colombia’s civil aviation agency is examining why top airline Avianca and other domestic carriers continue to cancel a relatively large number of flights even after the resolution of a labor dispute that was supposedly the...
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