Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 25, 2011 | News
The urban approval rating of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos remains high, but according to a poll by Gallup the country’s city-dwellers are increasingly negative about security and employment. Of the interviewees,...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 24, 2011 | Economy
Colombian stocks posted a slight decline Thursday, while the peso strengthened against the dollar. The benchmark IGBC index retreated 0.18% to 14576.47 points. Pacific Rubiales Energy, a Canada-based oil company that trades in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 24, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has eight pending criminal investigations against him, the country’s interior and justice minister announced Thursday. According to Minister German Vargas Lleras, the majority of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 24, 2011 | Lite
Bored with Colombia’s bad image in the press, U.S. citizen Barry McClain decided to start a project to show the Colombia he knows; a country of “the most welcoming and genuinely warm and friendly people I have ever...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 24, 2011 | News
Former director of intelligence agency DAS Andres Peñate accused Jose Obdulio Gaviria, personal adviser to former President Alvaro Uribe, of ordering illegal wiretapping, according to diplomatic cables released Wednesday by...
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