Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | zSports
The world’s fastest marathon runner, Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai, won the Bogota Half Marathon Sunday. The 29-year-old Mutai clocked the course record time of one hour, two minutes and 20 second, finishing two minutes and 20...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | News
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe has paid a visit to his former agriculture minister who is behind bars awaiting trial for allegedly embezzling $25 million in state subsidies. According to radio station RCN, Uribe...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | News
Medellin police said Sunday they have arrested a 17-year-old female suspect of at least five homicides. The same girl was arrested a week and a half before, but had apparently escaped. According to a press release, “La...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | Economy
The future of a long-stalled free trade agreement with the U.S. is “very uncertain” because of the U.S. debt crisis and a growing polarization between Democrats and Republicans, said Colombia’s ambassador to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 31, 2011 | Culture
Brad Furman, director of “The Lincoln Lawyer,” is involved in negotiations to make a movie about slain Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, a U.S. magazine reported Saturday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the...
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