GTE discovers oil in Colombian Putumayo Basin
Canadian oil company Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) announced Monday that it has discovered oil in Colombia’s Putumayo Basin and hopes to begin production in early 2011, announced the company’s website.…
Canadian oil company Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) announced Monday that it has discovered oil in Colombia’s Putumayo Basin and hopes to begin production in early 2011, announced the company’s website.…
Colombian security agency DAS intercepted the phone calls and conducted surveillance of Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, according to a report published Monday by Ecuadorean news site El Universo. The report…
U.S. ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield said Saturday that his country will not increase the number of U.S. military personnel present in the Andean nation. Brownfield said that Colombia “will…
An investigative report by Colombian magazine Semana suggests that the assailants responsible for an acid attack on beauty pageant entrant Maria Fernanda Nuñez have links to one of her competitors.…
Colombia’s Vice President-elect Angelino Garzon on Friday criticized the United States, saying that the country was in “ethical and moral debt to the government of Colombia” over the long-delayed free…
Gustavo Petro, former presidential candidate for the Polo Democratico party, said that although he had met with President-elect Juan Manuel Santos he does not plan to join the incoming government.…
Former paramilitary boss Ever Veloza Garcia, alias “HH,” pleaded guilty to the murder of thirteen people in the Colombian departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Antioquia between 2001 and…
A 40-year-old street vendor from Ibague has been named the king of tamales, after beating the competition at the city’s annual tamale eating contest. Pitted against 23 competitors, all hungry…
The secretary general of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Nestor Kirchner, will travel to Colombia to meet with President Alvaro Uribe and President-elect Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian media…