Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 8, 2011 | Economy
Protests rocked Colombia’s fourth largest oil producer Petrominerales Ltd on Thursday, forcing the Canadian firm to suspend output of 15,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), the company and a union said. Protests against oil...
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Miss Colombia Catalina Robayo said Thursday she is confident she will win the Miss Universe beauty pageant, despite the world-wide controversy she caused by not wearing panties. “Everybody has the right to think and...
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to renew a long-standing program that allows Colombia and other developing countries to export thousands of goods to the United States without paying duties. House Speaker...
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Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday that accusations of a former paramilitary leader who testified that Uribe formed a paramilitary group in the 1990s are “slander” and called congressman...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 7, 2011 | News
Two U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday requested the White House to scrutinize U.S. assistance to Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS after media reports that American money and training was used by the DAS for the illegal spying...
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