Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | News
The vice president of Colombia’s largest workers union is wanted for the murder of his girlfriend, W Radio reported Friday. According to the radio station, a judge warranted the arrest of Hernan Correa Miranda, vice...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday he will be meeting with bankers, employers and unions to jointly prepare the country for a possible fallout of Europe’s debt crisis. Following a week of turbulence...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 24, 2011 | News
The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine in northern Colombia, believed to have been caused by an accumulation of methane gas, has risen to seven, authorities said Friday. Colombia’s mining regulator Ingeominas had last...
Read MorePosted 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...
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