Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 17, 2011 | Economy
Colombia has risen from being an “emerging” to “frontier” market in the Dow Jones Indexes Country Classification System, the company announced Friday. Dow Jones Indexes Country Classification System...
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that he opposed free trade deals with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea but set the stage for moving forward on the stalled accords next week. “I do not like the Colombia...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 16, 2011 | News
Police in Colombia’s second city, Medellin, said Friday they had seized high-end firearms in a downtown shop. According to a press release, the police found an American-made 7.62×39 caliber Draco-C pistol and a .40...
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Representatives of countries that signed the 1992 Basel Convention to stop the illegal dumping of toxic waste and ships in third-world countries will meet in Colombia’s coastal city Cartagena in October. During the October...
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The departing head of Colombia’s oil agency said on Thursday corruption allegations against him were unjust and warned that rising social protests were the main threat to the burgeoning sector. The Andean country’s...
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