Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | Lite
Colombian weekly JetSet published photos of President Juan Manuel Santos 28 years before taking Colombia’s most important job, showing a handsome, very curly, smiley and mustach-y JuanMa. The photos were taken by Rodrigo...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | News
Readers of Colombia Reports have donated nearly $3,000 for a Medellin project to provide food to children of displaced families. The project, “Angeles de Medellin,” is run by American Mark Kaseman, who has been...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | News
Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday approved “in record time” a bill that seeks to end the judicial limbo of thousands of demobilized paramilitary fighters. The government, confronted with the Constitutional...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | Economy
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the extension of a preferential trade deal that allows the duty-free import of many Colombian products. “The overwhelming vote in favor of the extension of the Andean...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 16, 2010 | News
The release of three members of the security forces and two local politicians held captive by the FARC will take place at the end of January, mediator Piedad Cordoba told the hostages’ families Wednesday. “The...
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