Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2011 | News
The Colombian Navy is looking for nine people who went missing after their boat crashed with a tugboat on the Magdalena river Wednesday. A Navy spokesperson said Wednesday that search efforts are being hampered by the...
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Colombian police said Wednesday they arrested 2,403 suspected criminals in a nation-wide offensive to increase security in the country’s biggest cities. According to the website of the National Police, the operation...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris next week. According to Spanish press agency EFE, the meeting between the presidents is scheduled on Wednesday, January 26,...
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Colombian authorities on Wednesday arrested a former army major who was supposedly held at an army base for the attempted murder on a leftist politician. Mayor Cesar Alonso Maldonado was supposed to be serving a 27-year prison...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 19, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s government Tuesday got rid of a years-long policy of setting minimum freight prices for the trucking industry, saying months of rains that destroyed highways and bridges caused a spike in transportation costs...
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