Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 22, 2010 | Economy
Colombia will have received over $10 billion in foreign direct investment by the end of 2010, says the director of Proexport, responsible for the promotion of investment and tourism in the country. According to Proexport...
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Seven soldiers were killed in the departments of Antioquia and Caqueta on Tuesday. According to RCN Radio, four soldiers were killed in a minefield 80 miles north of the city of Medellin and three were killed in combat with...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 22, 2010 | News
Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell is suing the country’s former President Alvaro Uribe and his two sons for slander after the Uribe family through Twitter accused the journalist of ties to drug lords, local media...
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Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office started an investigation against officials whose alleged negligence or corruption may have contributed to catastrophic floods that hit vast regions in the country. According to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 21, 2010 | News
Colombia asked the United States to install aerial defense systems to protect the country from “external threats, particularly Venezuela.” In a cable sent by then-Ambassador to Bogota William Brownfield on November...
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