Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 13, 2011 | Economy
Venezuela has paid $820 million it owed to Colombian exporters and is still revising claims worth $450 million, Colombia’s trade minister said Friday. According to Minister Sergio Diaz-Granados, Caracas has paid...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 13, 2011 | News
Authorities in the north-Colombian Cucuta arrested the city’s former mayor after being sentenced to 27 years in prison for ordering the murder of his political opponent in 2003. A Bogota court considered it proven that...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 13, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Liberal Party voices opposition to the Conservative Party’s plan to include a referendum on criminalizing of abortion and the banning of gay marriage in October’s local elections. Liberal...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 12, 2011 | Economy
Imports to Colombia continued to surge in June, fueled by higher consumption, and the country posted a $378 million trade surplus, figures published Friday by the government show. The figure is higher than the $133 million trade...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 12, 2011 | Economy
The Colombian central bank’s decision to raise interest rates last month for the sixth consecutive policy meeting was aimed at keeping inflation risks low and reining in a fast-growing economy, minutes from the meeting...
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