Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 18, 2011 | News
Peru’s President-elect Ollanta Humala will visit Colombia later this month as part of a regional tour, his party announced Saturday. Humala will on Monday visit Bolivia for a two-day visit and the week after will visit...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 18, 2011 | News
515 members of neo-paramilitary or drug trafficking organizations have been arrested in north Colombia over the past four months, said the commander of the country’s armed forces Saturday. According to Admiral Edgar Cely,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 18, 2011 | News
Right-wing extremists are most likely to be behind the Thursday bombing of a Bogota park that damaged a statue of former President Laureano Gomez and a number of homes, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 18, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s central bank on Friday raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.25 percent, but analysts detected signals pointing to a pause in the bank’s rate-hiking campaign this summer. A majority of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jun 17, 2011 | zSports
Colombian international Cristian Zapata is talking to English soccer club Liverpool F.C. and German team Bayern Munich about a transfer, Sky Sports reported Friday. According to Sky, Zapata is considered one of the best...
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