Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 21, 2011 | News
A businessman and security guard were killed by contract killers inside a shopping mal in the south-west Colombian city of Cali Friday evening. According to several media, the killers assassinated a businessman in the food court...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 20, 2011 | News
The actual number of people affected by the extreme rains in Colombia in 2010 and 2011 is 2.2 million and not 3.4 million, as official sources previously claimed, government statistics agency DANE announced Thursday. In a press...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 20, 2011 | News
One of the candidates to replace Bogota’s suspended mayor Samuel Moreno, who is investigated for corruption, withdrew her candidacy Thursday over controversy regarding her connections to Moreno’s administration....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 20, 2011 | News
Colombian hacker collective “Anonymous” hacked the website of the country’s Senate Friday, replacing the page with an alternative website protesting a new law regarding internet copyright. On the hacker...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 19, 2011 | Economy
The Colcap index finished down 0.27% today as the two largest oil companies ended up on opposite sides of the spectrum. Ecopetrol finished the session up 2.72% while Pacific Rubiales finished down 3.41%, both on heavy volume....
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