Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 7, 2011 | Economy
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is considering raising minimum wage for 2011 by four percent, 0.6 percentage points more than announced late December. According to a press release on the President’s website, the...
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If the United States congress does not ratify a free trade agreement with Colombia, signed by the countries’ governments in 2006, it would “be a terrible signal sent to the world,” said U.S. Senator McCain...
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Colombia’s National Police on Friday claimed it had made a total of 220,201 arrests in 2010. According to Bogota radio station Santa Fe, a report released on Friday said that 79,072 of these asrrested were linked to the...
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Six people died and another eight were injured in a traffic accident in the northeastern Colombian town of California, Santander on Thursday morning. A local police official told Caracol Radio that the bus — driving...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday condemned the recent bomb attacks on the central city of Neiva and called on locals to not give in to extortion attempts. Santos said at a press conference that the FARC, the...
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