Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 16, 2012 | News
Colombia police said Wednesday they have seized more than four tons of marijuana in the southwest of the country. The drugs allegedly belonged to the “Rastrojos” drug gang and was meant for the black market in the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 16, 2012 | News
A man from the north of Colombia was arrested for forcing his underage children to have sex with a donkey. According to a local newspaper, the man was arrested by authorities in the Caribbean department of Sucre last week after...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 16, 2012 | News
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Colombia’s capital Bogota Wednesday for a game of golf with, among others, the country’s President, Juan Manuel Santos. According to the website of PGA Tour, the golf...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 15, 2012 | Economy
Resource-rich Colombia will ramp up sanctions against companies in the booming oil and mining sectors that abuse the environment and fail to abide by protection norms, a government minister said on Wednesday. The government will...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 15, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday that 2011 net profit rose 85% to 15.44 trillion pesos ($8.65 billion) compared with the previous year. Colombia is still fighting Latin America’s longest...
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