Colombia truckers go on strike
Colombia’s truckers’ union strike Friday after a hike in fuel prices. Truckers’ union (ACC) said that as the government refused to back down from Friday’s six cent increase in the…
Colombia’s truckers’ union strike Friday after a hike in fuel prices. Truckers’ union (ACC) said that as the government refused to back down from Friday’s six cent increase in the…
The export ban on Drummond, Colombia’s second-largest exporter of coal, was lifted Friday. Drummond shipping operations were suspended on February 6 after the Alabama-based company dumped tons of coal into…
Colombia’s second city Medellin has beaten Tel Aviv and New York Friday, to be named City of the Year, in a competition sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and Citigroup. By…
Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro caused quite a stir after telling citizens of Colombia’s capital on Wednesday to “leave their mobile phones at home.” “You think it’s ok to take your…
Colombia’s state council on Wednesday condmned the government’s “indiscriminate” spraying of herbicides in southern Colombia and ordered the Ministry of Defense and the National Police to reforest multiple properties. In…
Colombia has a “bright future” once the armed conflict with the country’s largest guerrilla group ends on Wednesday said the head of the United Nations Development Program. “My message is…
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) on Thursday extended its support to Colombia’s coffee federation (Fedecafe) while tens of thousands of growers continued to protest all across the country. “Of course…
Two scientists in Colombia’s second city Medellin on Monday have beaten the pack to figure out the origins and the orbit of the meteor that hit Russian town Chelyabinsk in…
A Catholic school in Colombia’s central Santander department has supposedly stamped out the sale and use of drugs by employing a drug-sniffing dog. The principal of “Colegio La Presentacion” petitioned…