Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 14, 2012 | Lite
Prisoners of the Picaleña prison in the central Colombian city of Ibague are no longer able to get drunk after authorities dismantled the liquor factory they had built. The liquor factory was discovered Monday after the prison...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 14, 2012 | News
A priest from the southwestern Colombian city of Cali is convicted for the 2009 sexual abuse of three children when they were 10, 11 and 12. According to Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office’s website, the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s benchmark blue-chip index rose Monday, buoyed by gains in U.S. stocks, while the peso strengthened modestly against the dollar. The Colcap index, the benchmark for Colombia’s largest publicly traded firms,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s central bank chief Jose Dario Uribe said on Monday that the economy likely grew between 5.6 percent and 6.0 percent in 2011, up from an expansion of 4.3 percent in 2010. He also said that economic growth in the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 13, 2012 | Tourism
In an offensive to promote Colombia as a golf tourism destination, the country’s tourism and export promotion agency says it has invited golf critics and members of the Global Gold Tourism Organisation (IAGTO) to try out...
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