Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 31, 2012 | News
The United States “respects,” but does not support Colombian President Santos’ call for a global debate on drug legalization, said U.S. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman Tuesday. Sherman, who is in Colombia to prepare...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 31, 2012 | Economy
Colombia stocks had one of their best days of the year Monday, led by big gains in top bank Bancolombia after the lender concluded a local share issue. The Colcap index, considered the benchmark for the Colombian Stock Exchange,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 30, 2012 | Guests
Increasingly, politically-motivated incarceration threatens Colombian unionists, human rights workers, and political activists. They are already too familiar with killings and disappearances at the hands of armed enforcers....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 30, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s central bank unexpectedly raised borrowing costs after the economy expanded at the fastest pace since 2006, defying President Juan Manuel Santos who said an increase wouldn’t be appropriate. The seven-member board,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 30, 2012 | News
Two aides of former President Alvaro Uribe who met with representatives of demobilized AUC leader “Don Berna” in 2008 reject the paramilitary leader’s claims that the meeting “gave more solidity to the...
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