Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 28, 2010 | News
Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin will represent Colombia at the funeral of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, who died in Miami Saturday. President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday reiterated his grief about the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 28, 2010 | News
Colombian employers and labor unions were not able to reach an agreement on the height of the country’s minimum wage. The government will now have to decide how much minimum wage will go up. It took the employers and union...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 27, 2010 | Bogota
Passengers who were supposed to have traveled to New York on Sunday were told by Colombian airliner Avianca that they won’t be able to fly until January 13, RCN Radio reported Monday. The Sunday evening flight was one of...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 27, 2010 | News
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...
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