Posted by Brandon Barrett | Apr 16, 2012 | News
Colombia’s former Minister of Communications denied accusations of corruption made by a former member of defunct paramilitary group the AUC Monday. In a letter to newspaper El Espectador, Maria del Rosario Guerra de la...
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Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro created a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Affairs Branch to fight sexual orientation and gender based discrimination in Colombia’s capital. The group, a subcommittee of...
Read MorePosted by Brandon Barrett | Apr 13, 2012 | News
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) presented an initiative Friday allocating $37 million to help Latin America’s low-income youth find work. The proposal was introduced at the Business Summit of the Americas, a...
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Former President Alvaro Uribe continued his denial of paramilitary ties in an interview with RCN Radio Friday. Uribe denied accusations that he helped found paramilitary groups during his 1995-1997 tenure as the governor of...
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President Juan Manuel Santos called for a “rational” and “objective” discussion on drugs at the Summit of the Americas. In an interview with U.S. news network Univision, Santos said he wanted an honest...
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