Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 27, 2010 | News
Colombian authorities arrested and expelled a Swedish citizen wanted in his home country to face drug trafficking charges. According to newspaper El Tiempo, Swedish citizen Jonas Sture Oredsson is considered the leader of an...
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Crime in Colombia went down six percent in 2010 compared to the year before, the country’s police said in their year-end report. The country’s murder rate dropped 3.6 percent. In 2010, 15,238 murders were committed...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 27, 2010 | News
Colombia’s main stock market said Monday it will extend its trading sessions by three hours in the new year to coincide with New York’s closing bell. Starting Jan. 3, trading on the Colombian Stock Exchange will end...
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The FARC replaced “Fabian Ramirez,” the commander of the guerrillas’ Southern Bloc who reportedly was killed in an air raid last month, television network RCN reported Monday. According to RCN, police...
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The reconstruction of Colombia’s Caribbean coastal departments will take years, the governor of Bolivar, one of the departments devastated by floods, said Monday. Governor Felipe Merlano told Caracol Radio “it will...
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