Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 1, 2011 | News
Colombia scored 3.4 out of 10 in the 2011 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), slightly worse than the previous year’s score, making it the world’s 80th least corrupt country. Latin America’s corruption index...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 30, 2011 | News
A judge in Colombia has dissolved the marriage of Ingrid Betancourt, the former presidential candidate rescued in 2008 from leftist rebels who held her hostage for more than six years. Betancourt filed for divorce after her...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 30, 2011 | Economy
Thirty-five export cargoes of Colombian crude oil are scheduled to load in December, market sources who have seen a loading schedule said on Wednesday. Colombia’s Ecopetrol plans to load 14 cargoes of Castilla and seven of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 30, 2011 | Lite
Colombian journalists said Wednesday they had been assaulted by bodyguards of controversial U.S. actor Charlie Sheen, who is staying in the Caribbean city of Cartagena. According to radio station Caracol, the bodyguards pushed,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Nov 30, 2011 | From the editor
Colombian social organizations, backed by the authorities, are planning to march against the FARC on December 6 — but they should demand peace from the government, as well as from the rebels. Colombians have marched...
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