Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 7, 2010 | Economy
Colombia’s Santo Domingo Group will form part of an international consortium to buy a $1.8 billion stake in Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual, the Wall Street Journal reports. The buyers include the sovereign wealth...
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos visits Bello, north of Medellin, to inspect efforts to rescue an estimated 94 residents who are thought to have been buried under 50,000 cubic meters of earth. The bodies of 30...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 7, 2010 | Culture
Colombian singer Juanes on Tuesday released his latest album “P.A.R.C.E.” The album is the Colombian’s fifth solo album and the first since his 2007 “La Vida … Es un Ratico.”...
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Rescue workers in Bello, Antioquia, have so far recovered 30 bodies from the site where a landslide buried 35 houses on Sunday, while 94 people are still missing and feared dead. Ever since the tragedy hit the town that borders...
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The sister of the director of the Prosecutor General’s Office anti-organized crime unit was arrested for her involvement in one of Colombia’s main drug trafficking organizations. According to newspaper El Tiempo,...
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