Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 23, 2011 | News
Five members of one family were killed in a traffic accident in central Colombia. The family members were on their way from the city of Neiva to a family reunion in the capital of Bogota when their car crash while trying to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2011 | Economy
Colombia is looking to foreign investors to help the country improve its infrastructure after years of ambitious projects that were later abandoned, President Juan Manuel Santos told the Council of the Americas in New York on...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2011 | Economy
Markets were crushed around the world Thursday and Colombia wasn’t spared. Markets here were rattled, especially as oil prices dropped more than 6.5% leading all 4 oil companies listed on the BVC to extremely poor days....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s economy grew 5.2 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period a year ago, fueled by a boom in the mining and oil sectors. While the United States struggles with high unemployment and the risk of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 22, 2011 | News
The on-again, off-again plea deal for a reputed Colombian drug lord in jail in the U.S. is apparently back on again. Court records showed Wednesday that Jaime Alberto Marin-Zamora, best known as “Beto” Marin, is...
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