Posted by Jacob Stringer | Dec 6, 2012 | News
Judicial workers have suspended their strike of nearly two months until the new year, announced their trade union leader Thursday. The remaining judicial strikers, who have continued their protest despite a previously made...
Read MorePosted by Jacob Stringer | Dec 6, 2012 | News
The government Wednesday launched a national campaign in southwest Colombia called “I don’t pay, I report” in opposition to Colombia’s widespread extortion problem. The Ministry of Defense is encouraging...
Read MorePosted by Jacob Stringer | Dec 6, 2012 | News
Six agricultural penal colonies for imprisoned indigenous people and peasant farmers are being drawn up by the Colombian government, INPEC announced Tuesday. To ease chronic overcrowding and poor conditions in Colombian jails...
Read MorePosted by Jacob Stringer | Dec 6, 2012 | News
A paramilitary commander accused of hundreds of murders in northwest Colombia says he was supported by local politicians, police and the military, it was reported Monday. Fredy Rendon Herrera, alias “El Aleman,”...
Read MorePosted by Jacob Stringer | Dec 5, 2012 | Economy
Mining in Colombia has ‘lost competitiveness’ and will not hit government targets for 2012, said the director of Colombia mining industry body Wednesday. The industry is in part suffering from a 19% drop in coal...
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