Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 21, 2011 | Economy
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday threatened to expel an unnamed foreign oil services contractor if the government verifies that the firm bowed to demands for extortion payments from an unidentified illegal armed...
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While some of the country’s departments have already elected their contestants for the 2011 Miss Colombia beauty pageant, Bogota’s beauties are still in the running to officially become the capital’s most...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday admitted the security situation in Colombia has deteriorated since his election as president exactly a year ago. The president made the statement in an early-morning interview on one of the...
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Colombian authorities said Monday they have arrested a prominent Venezuelan drug trafficker who had an outstanding international arrest warrant against him. The suspect, Julian Hernando Diaz Porras, was arrested in Norte de...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 20, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Congress President and prominent member of coalition leader Partido de la U, Armando Benedetti, says the party of President Juan Manuel Santos and former President Alvaro Uribe is in crisis and faces a defeat in...
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