Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 23, 2011 | Economy
The Colombian peso has been retreating against the dollar, easing pressure on the central bank to buy up U.S. currency, although an interest rate decision later this week and robust foreign investment outlook mean that the...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos condemns the events in Libya, where ruler Muammar Gaddafi is attempting to violently suppress a popular uprising. “What is happening in Libya is unacceptable. We condemn the way the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 23, 2011 | Lite
Colombian television network RCN gave some moral support to former employee Valerie Dominguez — who may go to jail for illegally receiving government subsidies — by praising her body. The former Miss Colombia is one...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 23, 2011 | News
A mortar attack on a military battalion in the north-Colombian department of La Guajira killed at least three soldiers and injured four. The attack took place in the Distraccion municipality in the south of the department, some...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 23, 2011 | News
Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel lashed back at Alvaro Uribe Tuesday, saying Colombia’s former president should “learn what peace really is.” The remark followed a Twitter attack by...
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