Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 8, 2011 | Economy
Colombian stocks gained Friday following seven straight sessions of declines, led by a strong rebound in state-run oil firm Ecopetrol. The Colombian Stock Exchange’s IGBC index of blue-chip stocks rose 0.60% to close at...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 7, 2011 | Economy
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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 7, 2011 | News
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...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 7, 2011 | News
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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