Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Aug 13, 2011 | News
The former treasurer of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s party, on the run over graft allegations, arrived back in the country Saturday after being extradited from Colombia, police said. Mohammed Nazaruddin,...
Read MorePosted 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...
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