Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 21, 2012 | News
Alleged rebels of the FARC have attacked a radar station in the Cauca department, killing one policeman and causing delays at the airport of Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, authorities said Saturday. The rebels...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 21, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s second-longest pipeline, the Caño Limon, was bombed by leftist rebels Friday morning and pumping remains halted following an earlier attack one week ago on the same pipeline, an official at national oil company...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s benchmark blue-chip index fell Thursday, pushed lower by a decline in the shares of state-run oil firm Ecopetrol SA, while the peso weakened slightly against the dollar. The Colcap index fell 0.44% Thursday to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2012 | News
The United States expressed its concern Wednesday about the appointment of Venezuela’s defense minister who by Colombian media has been accused of being friends with FARC leader “Timochenko.” “Our...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2012 | News
Wealthy landowners paid paramilitary organization AUC approximately $26,000 for the 1997 massacre of Mapiripan in which an unknown amount of small farmers were killed, an ex-paramilitary commander testified Wednesday. According...
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