Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 8, 2011 | News
Colombia’s Interior and Justice Minister said Thursday that marches against a proposed education reform took place without irregularities. “Today they behaved exemplary. The march ended without any incident we should...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 7, 2011 | Economy
The AFL-CIO, the United States’ largest union federation, has said it is “deeply disappointed” with a deal brokered between Colombia and the U.S. on reforming labor laws and the improving the protection of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 7, 2011 | Coffee region
Colombia’s coffee-growing region launched its first website Wednesday to draw more attention to the region’s tourism possibilities. According to export and tourism promoter Proexport, the website “will allow...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 7, 2011 | News
The governor of the central-east Colombian department of Casanare was dismissed Wednesday after being implicated in a corruption scandal. Governor Oscar Raul Ivan Florez Chavez was dismissed by the Inspector General’s...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 7, 2011 | News
A Colombian coalition congressman wants President Juan Manuel Santos to ask his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez for more subsidized gasoline to lower petrol prices. Cambio Radical Representative William Garcia Tirado on...
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