Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 16, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s coal production jumped 15.4% in 2011 to 85.8 million tonnes versus the previous year while exports rose 16 percent to 79.2 million tonnes, the country’s mining regulator said on Thursday. The largest...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 16, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol said on Thursday it expects group oil production to rise 10.5% to 800,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in 2012 versus the previous year. Colombia’s national oil...
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Alvaro Uribe loyalists are studying the possibility of amending the Colombian constitution to allow the former president to be re-elected for a third term. Speaking on behalf of “the majority of the Colombians,”...
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A child is killed and two others have been injured in an alleged FARC bomb attack in northern Colombia. According to local media reports, two bombs went off in El Tarra, a small town in the troubled Catatumbo region where the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 16, 2012 | Lite
Firefighters from the northern Colombian village of Puerto Colombia are in trouble after allowing the town’s fire station to be used for a porn flick. “We are investigating. We were surprised in good faith, like,...
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