Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 17, 2011 | Cartagena
85% of tourists that visited Cartagena at the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011 were satisfied with their visit to Colombia’s prime tourism destination, a recently released poll showed. According to the fourth annual...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 17, 2011 | News
The four Chinese oil workers recently kidnapped by alleged FARC guerrillas should not be afraid or worry about the outcome, a former hostage told Colombia Reports. Norbert Reinhart, a former employee of Canadian mining company...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 17, 2011 | zSports
Colombia’s Juan Mauricio Soler has been hospitalized in St Gallen with severe brain injuries after a heavy crash during the Tour of Switzerland on Thursday. Soler’s Movistar team issued a statement to say the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 16, 2011 | Economy
Oil production in Colombia last month reached 923,000b/d compared with 902,000b/d in April and 776,000b/d in the year-ago month, according to preliminary statistics from hydrocarbons regulator ANH. Output has averaged 883,000b/d...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 16, 2011 | News
A Danish court Thursday sentenced a 52-year old man to six months in jail for sending money to Colombian rebel group the FARC. Viggo Toft-Joergensen, the spokesman of a Danish labor union had sent 10,000 kroner ($1.900) to the...
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