Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 8, 2011 | News
“Ernesto Baez,” one of the former leaders of paramilitary organization AUC, was sentenced to 36 years in jail Thursday for the murder of a union leader in 2001. A Bogota judge considered the jailed paramilitary...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Apr 8, 2011 | News
U.S. Congress should see that human rights commitments made by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos are “vigorously enforced,” Human Rights Watch said after Santos and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama announced...
Read MorePosted 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...
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